Maristella Okpala, Miss Universe Nigeria, was awarded the Best National Costume award at the just concluded Miss Universe 2021 pageant. …
The world’s first virtual rhino horn has been auctioned in South Africa. “We have rhinos on the reserve, they are …
The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major …
The National Commission for Museums and Monuments will receive a Benin Bronze from Jesus College, University of Cambridge, England, on …
Egypt reopened to tourists the 4,700-year-old southern tomb of King Djoser at the pyramid of Saqqara after a 15-year renovation. …
Artist Amy Sherald’s iconic portrait of Breonna Taylor went on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History …
Artefacts looted by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868 have been returned to the Ethiopian embassy in London. They include …
By Akinbola Esther The Ankara fabric, originally known as the Dutch Wax Print, has been in existence for a long …
The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has reversed an ancestral curse placed on Nigeria by his grandfather, Olu Erejuwa …
By Akinbola Esther Karo Tribe is a small tribe with an estimated population between 1,000 and 3,000. They can be …
Chike Obi (April 17, 1921 – March 13, 2008) was a Nigerian politician, mathematician, and professor. He was the first Nigerian …
Sodeke was born in Iporo in the Ẹgba forest, his father, Rogidi was a farmer, his mother, Efuwo, was said …
By Esther Akinbola Koma people are found in Ganye Chiefdom, in the present Jada local government area of Adamawa State. …
On the grounds of the island airport (Oranjestad) archaeologists have discovered a former slave fiefdom If you dig into the …
Kenya is set to hold an elephant naming ceremony aimed at promoting conservation. The festival was launched on Monday by …
By Akinbola Esther Music is a big deal in Africa and it has helped in telling their Stories. There are …
Egypt has retraced the biblical route of Jesus Christ’s family while in the North African country from Bethlehem, to promote …
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled a statue of the 19th Century war heroine and one of the leaders of …
Like many other museums around the world, the Theodore-Monod museum of art in Dakar reopened this week after over a …
Egyptian archeologists unearthed 110 burial tombs in an ancient site in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia around 150 kilometers …
For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few …
For these Senegalese women, this outside pottery workshop is their ultimate meeting place where they spend most days working with …
By Akinbola Esther Hair! Hair played a major Role in the Ancient African Culture and Civilisation. A Glamorous Hairdo came …
The mummified remains of 22 kings and queens from ancient Egypt go on display at their new resting place south …
BY Akinbola Esther · Africa Is The Second Largest Continent On Earth Africa is the second largest continent in the world …
Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known …
Olaudah Equiano (c.1745–March 31, 1797), was a writer and abolitionist from the Eboe (Igbo) region of what is today South-Eastern …
Egyptian archaeologists have made a stunning discovery of a lost city that dates back more than 3,400 years to the …
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization has been fully opened to the public. The facility was opened just a day …
Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only woman pharaoh, began the journey along with 21 others to their new resting place: the country’s …
Crowds of curious Egyptians are expected to line the streets to witness an historic procession of their country’s ancient rulers …
Goulfey, a town located about fifty kilometers from Kousseri in the northern region of Cameroon, is experiencing a new captivating …
The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize—the first ever dedicated award for female African artists living and working in Africa—launches in Accra, …
The University of Aberdeen says it will return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, the first institution to do …
Cascadia Art Museum is reopening with a new exhibition ‘The Sculpture of Charles W. Smith’. Originally from Woodside, N.Y., Smith …
Angelina Jolie has just put the painting “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” up for sale. This painting has particular historical …
The NOK culture is an early Iron Age population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of NOK …
When the black Brazilian rapper Emicida imagines his country’s whitewashed history, he sees a textbook missing a succession of key …
Etymologically, the word Abstract was adaptation from the Romans and it literally and originally meant to ‘drag’ or ‘draw’ something …
As the Prussian Palace made its grand opening of a museum on Wednesday, the debate on the return of artifacts …
One of only three artefacts ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found in a misplaced cigar tin …
An online bidder has paid 80,000 euros ($98,000) to get up close and personal with the “Mona Lisa,” after the Louvre museum in …
Nigeria has received a “priceless” terracotta head believed to be at least 600 years old which was smuggled to the …
German media group Bertelsmann will acquire U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for more than $2 billion, a source …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction “Winner of Winners” award following …
Meet Nyornuwofia Agorsor better known ‘Agorsor’. The brown skin diva is quite gifted hard working and multi-talented painter/musician (Vocalist, instrumentalist, …
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