• Announces Initiative To Support Emerging Nigerian Artistes It was a celebration of Nigerian culture at this year’s Google For Nigeria’s cultural night, which held recently at the Podium, Lekki, Lagos. Aside from cultural displays from Edo, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa,…
3 Yoruba Native Caps You Should Know About
Fashion is constantly evolving, however, native caps are still the same as they were many years ago. In Nigeria, traditional fashion styles are not complete without a matching cap. It is a unique part of the outfit that makes every…
5 of the African Indigenous Dances
In Africa, dance serves a complex diversity of purposes. Each performance usually reflect the communal values and social relationships of the people. Unlike all dance traditions of the world, the polycentric nature of African dance sets it apart from all other dances.…
Honouring Indigenous culture
Nearly 1,000 dancers are expected to kick up their feet at the Poundmaker’s Lodge Treatment Centre’s annual traditional powwow in St. Albert this weekend. The weekend-long event will be kicked off by a traditional story-telling session with elders on Friday,…
A Museum’s Quest to Find a Looted Yorùbá Costume’s Original Owners
Over the last few decades, reckonings of all manner have rocked the foundational ways we have consumed and understood works of art as well as the narratives that inform them. In museums, often the most public-facing arenas to experience art,…
Evolution of Iraq’s tattoo culture shows impact of US legacy
Evolution of Iraq’s tattoo. Tattoos, which are permanent by nature, are a fitting example of the unchangeable legacy that the U.S-led invasion left in Iraq.
Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance
Largest-ever lesson of Zumba dance held for elderly in Moscow region – A record-breaking Zumba continental dancing class was held in the city of Balashikha
Shanghai Sacred: inside China’s religious revival – photo essay
Photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley uncovers the spiritual landscape of China’s largest city, revealing the spaces and rituals of this cosmopolitan megalopolis that is home to 26 million people – and to religious groups from Buddhism to Islam, Christianity to Baha’ism, Hinduism…
Nigeria, Korea deepen relationship through dance culture
The Grand finale of the Korean-Pop Dance Competition was held last weekend at the University of Lagos. In its eighth editions, the dance contest, which is organised yearly by the Korean Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Republic of…
Ooni urges Yoruba to unite against killings in South-West
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Sunday said it was high time the South-West geopolitical zone united and defended itself against bandits killing its people. Ogunwusi, who said the South-West had had enough of the killings by suspected…