As some of us are planning and getting ready to rode the trolley to travel and roam the world only this time with much caution and precaution. It pays to embark on journeys that fundamentally reorient our senses. All of us have equivalents. Things we care about that aren’t mentioned anywhere. And part of growing and learning to travel well, means daring to take our own interests a bit more seriously rather than following the hype. So, what is the traveler’s mindset? Receptivity, appreciation and gratitude might be its chief characteristics. Museums are a great place to start especially in getting to know a country better but most importantly it’s history people and culture. According to the most commonly cited figures from a 2007 UNESCO forum, 90% to 95% of sub-Saharan cultural artifacts are housed outside Africa. Many includes works from Benin that were taken during the colonial period and ended[…]
A great deal of African history and culture has intentionally been made to be obscure. Civilizations existed in Africa long before European colonization. From the African continent, great civilizations have risen to glory. Through its peoples, astounding cultures have grown and flourished. Yet many myths remain about Africa. We can’t pretend that Africans have no history as if we just dropped from the sky argued the great Chinua Achebe and always sharing this Igbo proverb: “If you do not know where the rain began to beat you then you cannot tell where you dried your body.” As in if you don’t know where you come from then you cannot tell where you are going. Scholars have concluded that civilization developed in West Africa as much as one thousand years earlier than they once believed. We now know that Africa had an Iron Age culture with cities and trade routes[…]
Given the vastness of the African continent, one unique instrument seems to unify all Africans and in doing so provides a singular identity when one hears the sound of it and that is nothing other than the African drum. No matter which country you are from in Africa or where you may be, hearing the sound of a drum will bring people together or spark curiosity in the minds of anyone who hears it. Perhaps the curiosity to know who is beating the drum or what it is for and the message it carried is what makes people come together when they hear the sound of the drum or drums. Although, hearing the sound of any drum has different meanings and connotations depending on a culture, or tribe the singular objective is the drum serving as a means of communication, unity, and bringing together people from various tribes. Some[…]

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