5 Mouth Watering West African Dishes You Need to Try
If you’re looking to learn more about West African cuisine, here are 5 recipes that will delight your palette and serve as an excellent introduction to one of the continent’s most popular styles of cooking. Kenkey is a typical Ghanaian dish made from fermented white corn, which is widely consumed throughout the country by Ga […]
10 African Films and TV Series Breaking Boundaries
While the pandemic has stymied production efforts across the globe, it also arrived at a time when demand for African content has skyrocketed. The result has been a mini-boom in new offerings from the continent, whose production values and themes are evidence of a new era in African entertainment. The first season of legal drama, […]
Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Home Collection Merges African and English Customs
British-Nigerian designer, Yinka Ilori, exploded on the design scene in 2011 with his refreshingly bold and colorful take on “upcycled” chairs. Finding discarded chairs and giving them new life through the use of brilliantly hued West African-inspired fabrics, Ilori established himself as a creative force on the rise. He’s now applied his colorful perspective to […]
Millennial Traditional Healers Moving African Spirituality Forward
Although the world of traditional healing has historically been shrouded in mystery and misconceptions across Africa, more young people are entering into the practice and are transforming it in the process. With greater openness to experimentation and sharing, millennial healers are debunking myths and broadening acceptance of more spiritual paths toward wellness. To those on […]
African Book Clubs Are Bringing Together Readers from Across the World
While reading is a solitary exercise, books foster connection to the people and places in their stories, as well as between readers. African book clubs have proliferated of late, affording a bridge for diasporans across the globe, as well as a form of community during the isolation of the pandemic. The Happy Noisemaker is an […]
