The bayankole tribe of Uganda takes the “aunts” to a whole new level. In African cultures, aunts are respected and almost seen as a mother. They are being given so many rights as aunts. People also get obsessed with being an aunt, just like the way people get obsessed with being a grandmother or…
Chewa is a tribe from the Bantu people of South and Central Africa. Mostly from Malawi, since they have the largest of their ethnic groups there. Phiri and Banda are the largest clans, populating with about 1.5 million people. The Phiri are the kings and aristocrats. The Banda are the healers and mystics. They are…
The Ndebele people are descendants of the Nguni tribe, said to have split from the great Zulus of South Africa. Like every other African culture, they have cultural practices that stand out. Marriage is a symbol in African cultures, and the Ndebele is not left out. In Ndebele, marriage is highly rated that an unmarried…
There’s a group of people that inhabit Ghana, Eastern ivory coast, and some parts of Togo called the Akan people. They are believed to be initially an ethnolinguistic grouping of the Guinea coast. They are the participants of the famous Akan religion. Ghana, ivory coast, Togo, and Guinea countries are countries situated in western Africa….
The Igbo cosmology is divided into four parts, and one of the four of them is Alusi. The Igbos are one of the three major ethnic groups of Nigeria, in west Africa. Alusi, know by some as Arusi and some as Arushi, are minor deities or gods worshiped in the Igbo tradition. They are…
Spitting on someone, even if it was done mistakenly can cause fights, spitting from females has been a sign of pregnancy. Spitting, as a whole, has to be uncultured and can be tamed mannerless but, The Massai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania, with their cultural practice, has proven otherwise. The Massai tribe is a…
Many deities come to mind when discussing Efik cosmology, like Anantigha, Anansa, Esierebom, Afia ntan, and so many others. Still, the most famous of them were Anatigha and Anansa, a male and a female deity, respectively. They are the deities of the enwang people. Enwang people of the Efik society are deeply rooted in their…
Being able to maintain originality and not being swayed by technology and western civilization is nice. There are many unusual African cultural practices and the Surma people, consisting of three ethnic groups; the Mursi, the Suri, and the mekan people. The Suri and the Mursi people share a similar culture, and the lip plate of…
As opposed to the general practice in most African cultures where the woman gets to do pageantry, and the men get to choose their wives. The wodaabe tribe of the Fulani has a cultural practice where the men play the display, and the women get to pick their husbands. Interesting, right?…
To the modern-day Igbo person, Ekwensu is believed to be the Christian Satan, but in the Igbo cosmology, it’s not so and was never so. The Igbos, natively called NDI IGBO, are the ethnic group that occupies the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria. They are among the largest ethnic groups in Africa and one…