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Think you know African mythology? Match each being to their legend and prove your knowledge.
In this episode, Haleemah and Sesi talk about Yoruba historical figure, Queen Moremi and her impact.
In this episode, Sesi and Haleemah speak to Yvette about Kenyan food and it's relationship with the African diaspora.
In this episode, Sesi, Haleemah and Imisi discuss African folktales and folklore, their similarities and differences and adaptations in popular culture.
In 1874,a German traveler, Karl Leche, sent a letter to newspapers across the United States and Europe. His letter gave vivid details of a tree he came across in Madagascar, an island on the east coast of Africa, and how that tree consumes humans, so much that the Mkodo tribe people made human sacrifices to said tree.
The Mau Mau Uprising is another African history relating to the national activist movement for freedom in Kenya. It was a bloody war of liberation that lasted from 1952 to 1963 and is said to be the foundation of Kenyan independence.
Myths, legends, magic and masquerades, folktales and fables, spells, spirits, spooky tales, spilling the tea – Oriire is seeking submissions for its publication: a compilation of 25 African-themed spooky stories.
