BY CHRISTINE SIAMANTA KINORI | 31 JULY 2017 16:57
It is dusk and the sun is slowly setting but you can still clearly see the peaks of Mt.Kilimanjaro. It has been a sunny day and I have been traveling by bike to get to the emanyatta where the Orngesherr ( Maasai age-mate ceremony) will be held. It's in the remote region a small town called Loitoktok at the border of Kenya and Tanzania. It was a scenic journey but only a bike can manage to get through the narrow murram roads. Its literally a connection of narrow
BY ALESSANDRO PARODI | 18 JUNE 2017 18:32
Ancient wisdom, mystical spirits, visions and dreams, complimented by natural forces, bones and herbs are the weapons of a sangoma, traditional healer of Southern Africa. In the city of Johannesburg, skyscrapers and shining towers make shadow over an ancestral religious practice. The sleeping forefathers of humankind thrive inside human passions and possess their priests in a violent entanglement that allows the healers to cure and bless their patients.
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY MOZA MOYO 13 JULY, 2015 05:32
Somewhere in the Horn of Africa, there are ethnic tribes whose exotic traditions and way of life remain untouched by the modern world. The Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia is home to over a dozen different tribes, who have lived there for centuries. Forming part of the estimated 200 000 indigenous peoples inhabiting the area are the Karo, who have a population of about 1000 to 2000, making them
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALESSANDRO PARODI 23 MAY, 2015 11:35
The young adults of the village have left for the mountains. They will be circumcised and will come back after three months. They will be men now. In the village, apprehension and melancholy spreads as everybody awaits their return….
They left for the mountains only to return three months later, transformed from boys into men. Every year thousands of adolescents follow the sangomas, known as traditional
BY BRUCE GERMAINE 26 FEB, 2015 01:23
The mention of the word Zulu brings a romantic notion of brave African warriors and beautiful maidens to mind, yet in today’s modern South African and African society, the Zulu nation is by far the largest ethnic group with about 20 -22 million people. Looking back at a brief history of how the Zulu nation came into being long ago, they lived as isolated and sometime nomadic family groups.
BY LIBBY POWEL 22 APR, 2013 17:00
Ndebele traditions are notable for the color their women bring to mural art and the dresses which are accessorized with brass rings. But that’s not what Ndebele is all about.
