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Ousmane Diakhaté** and Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh*** Theatre is one of the cultural elements that best exemplifies Africa. It is at the crossroads of the sacred and the profane, orality and the written wor…

Snake men crossing the Huli men. Nobody has been hurt! Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing The men-with-wigs are the members of the Huli tribe. It is the most famous famous tribe of Papua New Guinea. They are called like that because they make wigs from their hair. They live close to Tari city in the center of the Papua New Guinea on the top of the Highlands. Most of the hulis are civilized but a part of them still lives a traditional life. For their singsings (the local names for the big events) the men come back to their indigenous customs. For these occasions, even the city of Tari is suddenly filled with aborigines dressed in short skirts and traditional wigs richly decorated with feathers. They paint their faces, usually with yellow, red, and white decorations like you can see on the picture. Hulis are warriors.At the beginning of the year 2010, the tribal fights even start to bother the economical development. Police was deployed the Southern Highlands province to contain an ongoing tribal war which has troubled the ExxonMobil gas pipeline project. The operations of were badly affected by the fights which started in jaunary 2010. The fights caused 11 deaths and the destruction of more than 270 houses. © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

“What a fantastic #writing journey. My debut #novel The Beggar's Dance to be published in 2015. #publishing #fiction”

September 2020 arrives with the need to shift the whirlwind of chaos into the calm after the storm. This month, it is the Orisha Goddess OYA who magickally protects and guides us.

Terez Mertes Rose writes fiction which often interlaced with her passions, including dance and travel. Find out how much of her latest novel, "A Dancer's Guide to Africa," comes from personal experience in this interview and book review.

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Photographer Sanlé Sory spent 25 years documenting night life in the West African country of Burkina Faso.

Its fair to say that Historically, women have not received the recognition due to them, and that the same problem continues today as women continue to strive for respect and equality, and so in this entry we take time to pay homage to some of the Warrior women of

Digital ID: 88409. G. Lekegian & Cie. -- Photographer. 1860s-1920s Notes: The title on the photograph is illegible (white on white) and the photographer's name is cropped. Source: [Photographs and prints of Egypt and Syria.] (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?88409 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka's luscious painti ...

The Festival of Mariam Dearit takes place in May in Keren, Eritrea; thousands of visitors from all parts of the country come to pray, to worship the holy Mary, and to enjoy with a picnic, music and dance; the Mariam Dearit shrine is regarded a christian holy place, and a source of fertility, during the year the statue of the black Madonna stands in a very small shrine in a hollow old baobab tree; on May 29, the statue is carried around in a procession © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

From the dimly lit nightclubs to the Niger River, there was hardly a side of his native and newly independent Mali that Malick Sidibé didn't capture in the 60's and 70's, when he was the only photographer roaming the dance floors whose camera had a flash. Those black-and-white photos soon carried Sidibé's cult following well past Bamako, and made for a flood of impromptu tributes when he passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. Now, his legacy's gotten an institution-level homage, too: "Malick Sidibé: The Eye of Modern Mali" marks the photographer's first major solo exhibit in the U.K., and even has the halls of London's Somerset House playing the Malaian music that first got Sidibé on his feet. Revisit those exuberant early days, here.

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the harshest environments on Earth. Temperatures in the lake can rise to 140 °F (60 °C) and the alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5, almost as alkaline as ammonia. Animals who enter the water are almost certainly doomed, save certain kinds of fish that have evolved to survive in such a caustic environment. While working Africa photographer Nick Brandt stopped by the lake to discover several dead animals on the shoreline. More