At once beautiful, protective, seductive, and potentially deadly, the water spirit Mami Wata (Mother Water) is celebrated throughout much of Africa and the African Atlantic worlds. A rich...
The Soninke (also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli) are influential-agriculturalists, well-known traveling and celebrated traders as well as Mandé-speaking people of West Africa that founded the...
The Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu) people whose true name is Ngbanye (meaning Brave Men) derive the name Gonja from a corrupted Hausa phrase Kada Goro-Jaa (meaning...
Pito is a type of beer made from fermented millet or sorghum in northern Ghana, parts of Nigeria, and other parts of West Africa. It is made by small (household-level) producers, and is typically...
The Bimoba people also known historically as as the Bimawba, B`Moba, Moba, Moare, and Moab, are Gur-speaking (Gurma) cluster of peoples living in upper west...
King Sundiata Keita ( (circa. 1217–c. 1260) also known as Sunjata Keyita, Mari Djata the first or just Sundiata. Djata means Lion in Mandinka so he is...
Captain YabaCaptain Yaba (real name: Azongo Nyaaba) was one of the first Frafra kologo players to bring the instrument down from Bolgatanga into the mainstream...