Annual celebrations of the Durbar festival are held in a number of northern Nigerian cities, including Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Zazzau, Bauchi, Bida, and Ilorin. The celebration signifies the conclusion of Ramadan and falls on the same weekend as the Muslim...
The culture and traditions of the city of Lagos are expressed and displayed throughout this vibrant event. Locals from Lagos as well as tourists from other parts of Nigeria and beyond look forward to it and attend. The Adamu Orisha...
According to Quartz Africa, Nigeria became the second largest market for bitcoin; the modern world, digital currency, trading over 60,215 Bitcoin valued $566 million between 2015 to 2020. Paxful chart - image credit: Quartz The West African nation, reportedly...
Breaking! Sars operatives kidnapping #Endsars protesters from their various homes. It was reported this morning that a unit with police vans, believed to be the already disbanded notorious Nigerian police unit, raided yaba, surulere and some other parts of Lagos....
When you are in Awka, avoid the monkeys. To the people of Awka, in Anambra state, Nigeria ,Monkey is symbolic. Awka people's reverence for monkeys is as old as the history of the city. They revere the animal, and as...
It's quite noticeable in African traditions that the female gender had a prominent place in myth and indigenous religious and cultural concepts — the supernatural, a goddess, is female. For every cultural or traditional belief, there's a female god making...
The Fulani tribe of Nigeria, in West Africa. Nigeria happens to be the most populous country in Africa and consists of the highest number of ethnic groups. About 300 ethnic groups. There's a festival called Sharo. It's a festival from...
Dive yourself in the unique history and revolutionary politics of symbolic clothing of West Africa. DIASPORA - Dashiki is clothing as politics. In this current state, it may not look exactly like this: a revived urban trend, largely associated with the...
To support local fashion designers, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award-winning author, launched in 2017 "Wear Nigerian campaign" in which she decided to dress with Nigerian brands in all of her public appearances. The reason for this campaign was to educate...
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...
