The Ashanti (or Asante) are the dominant ethnic group of a powerful 19th-century empire and today one of Ghana’s leading ethnic groups, with more than two million members concentrated in south-central Ghana. The Ashanti Empire was a pre-colonial West African state that emerged in the 17th century in what is now Ghana. The Ashanti are … Read more
The Mandé people are a unique ethnolinguistic group originating from West Africa. The term “Mande” covers a linguistically and historically related group of peoples sharing an extremely rich and vibrant historical background, the high point of which was the Mali Empire that flourished from the mid-13th to the early 15th century. Various Mande languages form a branch of … Read more
Within the loop of the Niger River in Mali, between the town of Mopti and the Burkina Faso border, there is a place where steep cliffs at the edge of an arid plateau dominate a sandy plain. Over 500 meters high in places, the escarpment is fissured with deep ravines, where rain caught in the … Read more
It’s always a good idea to make an escape à deux especially for a pair who needs a quiet time alone and away from the mundane or quotidian and slip into something more comfortable — at destinations made just for two. Hence the paradoxical title of Gosetti-Ferencei’s book The Ecstatic Quotidian, which means “stepping outside … Read more
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