Embracing the True Culture of Africa Everywhere you go in Africa and every culture you meet in this beautiful continent and outside of it where there are people of African descent, even though the forms of cultural expressions are different in every African community, one thing that remains constant is the culture of life and the nurturing of life that Africans are known for. But before you start to think I am speaking of childbearing, let me quickly paint a picture of what I mean by the culture of life and nurturing of life. Just like every indigenous culture in the world, especially before t ..read more

Do you believe that there IS a true African culture for us to return to? *Right-click on the magazine above to access full-screen and other options ..read more

The Video shows Members of the Cabinet visiting the home of the Prime Minister, Jomo Kenyatta, in 1963 where they heard three versions of the National Anthem and tried to select a final version. “Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu” (English: “O God, our strength”) is the national anthem of Kenya. It was originally composed in Kiswahili, the national language. Kenya’s National Anthem was prepared by local people. The commission included five members and was headed by the Kenya Music Adviser Mr. Graham Hyslop. It was based on a traditional tune sung by Pokomo mothers to their children. The anthem is notable fo ..read more

On February 7, 2024, before the Zimbabwean cabinet allowed the importation of GMO BT maize solely for animal feed, lab results revealed unauthorized maize and soya GMO strains in Profeeds’ pig feed. Many of these GMO strains are not authorized in South Africa. Therefore, the production by #Profeeds of GMO animal feed containing unapproved soya and non-BT GMO maize strains – some not approved in South Africa – before the cabinet gave approval for the importation of GMOs from South Africa, for animal feed only (on February 7, 2024), was illegal and remains so today. This is because only on Marc ..read more

Food is life and he who controls it controls the life of the people. As Africans, we can no longer allow foreign interests to take over our food and seed policies,  production, and distribution. Do your part, plant and eat original indigenous crops today. I belong to a telegram group where farm produce is sold or swapped by local farmers in Kenya. It’s a very vibrant group with close to five hundred people. I am not a farmer, so I mostly just observe what people are saying or sharing about the state of farming and food production in general. It’s fun to watch people talk about various thi ..read more

Graph of Zimbabwean exports compiled using CEPII data Zimbabwe is currently exporting more than it ever has in history and generating more foreign currency than ever before, at $11 billion in 2023. We even had a huge trade surplus of $125 million in 2023, but irrespective, our currency is still falling. Why? It’s because Zimbabweans love foreign currency and foreign goods, as a result most of the foreign currency generated from exports does not come back to our taxman, the Reserve Bank, our commercial banks as savings or reinvestment in the economy, to facilitate a seamless foreign exchange s ..read more

Artist: Naftal Momanyi Media: Wood carving Title: Colonial guard Wait! Is it possible for anyone to lose the earth and heavens too? A hilarious chap in a single room placed a urinal pot next to his doorstep. While kicking his feet in the wee hours, the son of a man tiptoed in and stole the urinal pot. Early in the morning, we heard a loud cry of a stolen pot, and we then knew it was a bequeathed heritage from cucu (Grandmother). We were further scared that the urinal pot was a bath tap for a silver female python snake nicknamed”madame.”. Again, one time he traveled to his rural ..read more

Imagine a busload of foreign visitors traipsing down your street, peering into your house, take a selfie in front of your door… Invasive right? Yet that’s exactly what happens on some tours, often labeled poverty tourism, pity tours, ghetto tourism, reality tours or even poorism – there is no dearth of labels. Kibera slum is home to nearly a million people. With an average income of less than a pound a day, it is one of the poorest parts of Kenya – a poverty that is attracting Western tourists. Tourism is a money-spinner in many parts of Africa – and for Kenya it is the country’s second larges ..read more

THE ISSUE OF NIGERIANS SELLING DRUGS IN SOUTH AFRICA Almost every time the issue of foreigners selling drugs in South Africa comes up, Nigerians seem to be the center of the discussion, especially from the side of South Africans. This has been going on for a long while now and I do hope that some lasting solutions will be created for the issue. South Africans accuse Nigerian citizens of bringing drugs into their country, taking their women, turning their young women into prostitutes, taking their jobs, and the list of many other things they accuse them of. Lately, there have been calls by Sout ..read more

Shhhhhhhh! Be quiet and listen!!! In this issue, we share an article by Father Anselm Adodo in which he talks about us needing to be quiet enough to listen to our bodies so that we can hear what issues they are trying to tell us about. I want to add to add to that. There is so much noise out there: on social media, in the mainstream media, in our lives – so much we are preoccupied with that we are not still and quiet enough to hear Mama Afrika’s cries about what is ailing her and how much time we have left. About what she has made available to us to deal with the days we find ourselves in – th ..read more