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    Kumbwada: Where Women Rule
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Mar 24
    • 2 min

    Kumbwada: Where Women Rule

    Have you ever heard of an exceptional kingdom where women rule? A kingdom where it is impossible for men to ascend the throne? A kingdom...
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    Traditional Marriage in Hausa Land
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Jan 19
    • 3 min

    Traditional Marriage in Hausa Land

    in case you intend to marry a Northern-Nigerian beauty of Hausa origins, these are the information you must be familiar with, winks!
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    Calling Time: Harmful Traditional Practices in Africa and The Need for Change
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 6 min

    Calling Time: Harmful Traditional Practices in Africa and The Need for Change

    Breast Ironing is the forceful flattening, massaging or pounding of pubescent girl’s breasts in order to mar their growth or try to make the
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    Òrìsà: The Forgotten Heroes
    Olanrewaju Adesunloro
    • Aug 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Òrìsà: The Forgotten Heroes

    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...
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    Raffia On Fire
    Oluwaseun Beatrice Wende
    • Apr 30, 2021
    • 8 min

    Raffia On Fire

    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,...
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    Essay on The Deities of Efik Tradition: Ndem Efik Ebrutu
    Rachael Bassey
    • Mar 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Essay on The Deities of Efik Tradition: Ndem Efik Ebrutu

    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...
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    A Journey into African Myths: Our Thought Systems and Relevance to Science. (Literary Comp Winner)
    Ifeoluwa Egbetade
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 8 min

    A Journey into African Myths: Our Thought Systems and Relevance to Science. (Literary Comp Winner)

    “A man cannot live without myths” – Paulin Houndtonji. “That night, the Mother of the Spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan,...
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    Aba Women's War
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Mar 8, 2021
    • 4 min

    Aba Women's War

    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...
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    Revisiting Fictions on Pre-literate Africa
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Mar 4, 2021
    • 15 min

    Revisiting Fictions on Pre-literate Africa

    Disturbing the Paradise The advent of the European world left Africa with little or no choice. It was indeed a brutal condition of either...
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    Queen Amina
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Feb 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Queen Amina

    Amina had been training with swords and spears, sauntering the torturous journey of killing all her doubts and fears. She had trained hard..
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    Yèmọja
    Haleemah Atobiloye
    • Feb 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    Yèmọja

    The following inscriptions are my retelling of the story of Yèmọja, from the first version I heard and the history and characteristics I...
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    Praise Poems in Africa
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 6 min

    Praise Poems in Africa

    Oral poetry, just like oral literature, is usually a rendition performed in traditional societies. Therefore, oral poetry is a poetic...
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    Centering Africa: A Perspective on African Herbal Remedies
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Feb 7, 2021
    • 5 min

    Centering Africa: A Perspective on African Herbal Remedies

    It was once thought that Africans had no culture, no tradition, and no linguistic prowess. It was believed that the race only reasoned...
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    Taking You through The Ere: Aesthetic Dimensions and Significance of The Ere Festival.
    Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
    • Jan 24, 2021
    • 9 min

    Taking You through The Ere: Aesthetic Dimensions and Significance of The Ere Festival.

    Africa is a continent dotted with rich and diverse indigenous and modern festivals, rituals, ancestral worships which constitute the...
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    How African Spirituality Became Tied To Satan
    Sena Voncujovi
    • Jul 28, 2020
    • 7 min

    How African Spirituality Became Tied To Satan

    By Sena Voncujovi (Reposted from medium with permission) From white colonizers to contemporary pop culture A picture of a White Jesus...
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