NEAR Anansi's miserable little hut there was a fine palace where lived a very rich man called Nothing. Nothing and Anansi proposed, one...

The first time I heard about Oduduwa is still vividly emblazoned in my mind. I was a little boy of 7. Yet, what unfolded right in front...

Sàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; and as Jakuta or Badé is an Orisha, a deity in Yoruba religion. He is a royal...

The moonlit night carried the scent of wet earth. Soggy leaves were trampled underneath my mud-stained sneakers as I walked through an...

The cry of a new child filled the air, everyone was happy at the arrival of this precious little life, however when they came out after...

The transatlantic slave trade created wild cultural coexistence in many places of the world and indeed in the Americas. In fact, entering...

She was not the vain nor jealous type; Moremi liked to tell herself. In fact, she could be less concerned about the state of her beauty,...

Once upon a time there was a woman who had a beautiful daughter whom she loved very much, and she was very anxious that she should find a...

‘Do you want to hear a story?’ Damisi looked at his cousin with dull eyes. He wasn't sure if his cousin was oblivious to their current...

Growing up, I heard tales of the famous Bush Baby from the older boys in my village that attended the only boarding school in the whole...

Myths go back to primordial times. As such, they may relate the experience of the creation of man, lineage, hills, rocks, river or any...

Loud shrieks of kids playing and swirling around Madam Adepegba in her expansive compound filled the whole atmosphere. "Káyìi! E jé rora...

Efik history traces the origin of Ndem worship to their god’s basin (usan Abasi) which tradition says was a sacred companion of the Iboku...

The petrichor trashed the roof of my nose as I stepped out of the house. The fluency of the rain had been by fits and starts until that...

The sacred river of Ngene flowed pleasantly from one end to the other. A few boats were docked ashore as the sunset approached. People...

Botswana is well known for its music, wildlife, national parks, diamonds, traditional dances, and its traditional meals. It is known for...

“A man cannot live without myths” – Paulin Houndtonji. “That night, the Mother of the Spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan,...

Pioneered by women from the Owerri and Calabar provinces of south-eastern Nigeria, the “Women’s War” in Igbo history or the “Aba Women’s...

Disturbing the Paradise The advent of the European world left Africa with little or no choice. It was indeed a brutal condition of either...

They say there was a chief’s son called Masilo; there was a dearth in his village. Masilo invited many men, saying that they must come to...