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West African String Theory

The strings of West Africa reverberate around the world and if you’d like them reverberating...

There is a Madonna at the bottom of the crystalline waters off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy,...

In the 1770s, a talented black man – born a slave, mid-Atlantic, on a ship – whose friends...

Not all of us can be experts on the 1970s rock scene in Benin and also be all over the late 1960s...

5 Aug 2020 | Food

Jollof rice recipes are one of the more competed over in the world of food! It is decidedly West...

In a stretch of comparative quiet, by a shore of white sand, a bird I recognized at once was...

I stay awake, I listen, I learn. Early this morning, less than an hour before dawn, there was...

He squatted down, arranging the fire, shouting back over his shoulder into the hut, ‘My...

In her hut in Poto-Poto, the poor quarter of Brazzaville, the feticheuse, smiling at us, knelt on...

Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters. They speak (or...

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. What’s...

“The market of Umuike is a wonderful place,” said the young man who had been sent by...