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The Yoruba People, West Africa

In this series we are embarking on a pioneering  corpus aim to highlight the rich history of some of the varied African tribes or people groups, their impact on African and world history, legacies and stories that matter. Studies have shown that the African continent contains the highest genetic diversity of any place in the world and population genetics theory predicts that the highest level of diversity exists at the source of the population’s origin. For humans, that is Africa — with respect to Africa being the cradle of humanity — the birth place of humankind. As the second largest continent, Africa is home to more countries than any other continent in the world and more tribes or people group than any other continent not to mention the highest variation in language with more than 2,000 distinct languages, Africa has a third of the world’s languages. The Yoruba are[…]

The Ashanti People of Ghana, West Africa

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 an ethnic subgroup of the Akan-speaking people, and the last group to emerge out of the various Akan civilizations, composed of small chiefdoms. Twi, dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. Twi has about 17–18 million speakers in total, including second-language speakers; about 80% of the Ghanaian population speaks Twi as a first or second language and it is spoken by over nine million Asante people also as a first or second language. Twi has[…]

The Mande People – Descendants of the Great Mali Empire, West Africa 

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 the Niger-Congo language family, (Mandinka, Mandingo, Mende, Malinke, Maninke, Susu, Bambara, and Dyula). The heartland of Mande territory is in what is now northeastern Guinea and southern Mali, but Mande people are found across a much larger portion of sub-Saharan West Africa, speaking various dialects of the Manding family of languages. Recognized linguistic groups include the Maninka of northeastern Guinea and southern Mali, the Bamana of Mali, the Mandinka of Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau, the Mandingo of northern Liberia, the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, and the Dyula of northern Côte d’Ivoire. The Soninke provides a[…]

The Magnificence of the Dogon People, West Africa

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 cracks of the grey rock supports the growth of dense and varied vegetation. This is the Land of the Dogon. The Dogon, who today number about 300,000, are of the Malinke (Mandingo) ethnic group. Their ancestors are thought to have fled from the Mali Empire under the reign of Sundiata Keita in the fifteenth century and found refuge at the Bandiagara cliffs, where they displaced another people, the Tellern, who left behind abundant evidence of their own cultural traditions in tombs set in caves in the rock face. The communities at the site are essentially[…]

Top 10 destinations in Africa perfect for an escape à deux (escape for two)

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 of an everyday familiarity.” A philosophical inquiry in which Gosetti-Ferencei argued that the ordinary can only be got hold of via the phenomenon of the extraordinary, and vice-versa. From moonlit walks through atmospheric Mozambique island to a sun-soaked sparse foot traffic island of the Seychelles — with many areas having barely been visited, to candlelit dinners in Marrakesh and lazy lie-ins in sultry island of Zanzibar, it’s time to cast off the quotidian.   1. Enter a romantic paradise in the Seychelles. There are romantic vacations, and then there’s the Seychelles. The tropical paradise[…]
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