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We're Telling African stories.Oriire spotlights mythology and history from different African Cultures and across the diaspora.
The Ashanti Drum Language is an intricate communication system using drumming to convey messages across villages in parts of Ghana. Learn how drums speak through tonal rhythms and the cultural significance behind them.
This article dives deep into the Ogbanje myth in Igbo culture, exploring how it spiritually affects families and helps them cope with infant mortality. It celebrates the myth's cultural richness, symbolic depth, and its portrayal in literature and scholarly discussions.
This article gives insight into the mythology of Queen Oronse and the birth of the Igogo Festival of the Owo People, in Ondo State, Nigeria
In this episode, we speak to Fatima about jinns in Northern Nigeria.
Listen to Sesi and Haleemah discuss the extent to which culture should be preserved.
Anansi the trickster is a West African God. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the god of all knowledge of stories.
Kintu is a mythological figure who appears in a creation myth of the Baganda people of Buganda, Uganda. According to this legend, Kintu was the first person on earth and the first man to wander the plains of Uganda alone.
In this episode, Sesi and Haleemah speak to Mamokone about South African food.
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