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Long before the global beauty industry popularized serums and trending ingredients, African communities had developed sophisticated skincare traditions rooted in nature, culture, and ancestral knowledge. Across southern Africa, practices such as using ichopho, or pumice stone, for exfoliation and ukugquma, a herbal steaming practice, for cleansing and relaxation, formed part of daily beauty traditions passed […]
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Southern Africa’s safari industry is undergoing a quiet revolution, with luxury lodges increasingly placing conservation at the center of the travel experience rather than as a backdrop. From the Cape Vulture Nature Reserve in the Northern Drakensberg—home to over 700 breeding pairs of one of Africa’s most endangered birds—to KwaZulu-Natal’s Thonga Beach Lodge, where ancient […]
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A new study suggests malaria played a major role in shaping where prehistoric humans settled across sub-Saharan Africa, challenging long-held beliefs that migration patterns were driven mainly by agriculture and climate. Published in Science Advances, the research found that early humans avoided malaria-prone regions more than 70,000 years ago—long before farming spread across the continent […]
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By Basillioh Rukanga A baby hippo found desperately nudging its dead mother at a lake in Kenya over the weekend is now being hand-reared at a wildlife sanctuary after being rescued. The calf, which has been named Bumpy, was “just days old” when it became orphaned, according to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity whose keepers […]
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Made from Textile Waste, this ambitious artifact serves as a powerful cultural response to the global crisis of textile pollution In a landmark Earth Day announcement, Ghanaian artist, cultural producer, and sustainability advocate Emmanuel “DoTT” Kunfaa has officially announced the creation of what is set to become the world’s largest handbag made entirely from textile […]
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When Starbucks launched its first store on African soil ten years ago, Kabelo Jori was just beginning his own journey behind the bar. This month, those two stories meet. Rwanda is not a random stop on the coffee map. Starbucks has been buying here since 2004, a decade after the 1994 genocide. Coffee became one […]
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