Ntwane girls, Kwarrielaagte,Africa
After years of work, researchers have now completed their exhumation of all the artifacts of the Second Khufu Ship found next to the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) in Giza. The next steps are restoration and reassembly so this significant artifact will be ready for visitors to gaze upon it with awe at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Photo: Captain J. Th. Færch
"Yaa Asantewaa, The woman who fights before cannons, You have accomplished great things, You have done well" -Ashanti song- In 1900, the British governor of the Gold Coast in west Africa - today’s Ghana - travelled to Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti tribe. There, he delivered a provocative speech, in…
A king of an African tribe, who rules his people via Skype, e-mail and phone from Germany, has been the victim of burglary. The thieves reportedly managed to steal four crowns. King Togbe Ngoryifia Cephas Kosi Bansah, 66, who rules an area in southeastern Ghana, came home with his German wife, Gabriele, to find out
Initiation or Lebollo la banna is a cultural and traditional practice that the Basotho society follows to construct the manhood identity. It is a rite of passage in the sense that boys or ‘bashemane’ pass the puberty stage and enter the adulthood stage to become men or ‘monna’.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), along with other UN Agencies and the Government of Burundi, launched a "Back to School Programme" in Ruyigi, Burundi. The children were coming back to school after years of conflict and refuge in neighboring countries. The campaign is targeting 440,000 children through the distribution of 350 metric tons of school materials. Photo ID 51460. 01/10/2004. Ruyigi, Burundi. UN Photo/Martine Perret. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
La scarification est une pratique peu connue, mais qui est effectuée depuis très longtemps. Présente dans la société occidentale, elle est surtout utilisée à des fins esthétiques. Mais son origine …
Pictures: Baganda (Nubians)–Basoga –Easterners (Tororo-Teso-Karamojong)–South West (Kabale - Bahima)–Rwenzori (Pygmies)–Northerners (Bakedi-Shuli - Acholi)
