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Quiz
Think you know African mythology? Match each being to their legend and prove your knowledge.
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.
Listen to Sesi and Haleemah express their love and dislike for certain Nigerian foods while appreciating every effort used in bringing our delicacies to existence. What are your favourite meals? When was the first time you encountered them and how was the experience Why do some of your friends like certain dishes you dislike?
In this episode, we speak to Fatima about jinns in Northern Nigeria.
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.
