
A Second look at culture By Henry Ononogbo
The hackneyed call for cultural revival has been sentimentally understood and interpreted to mean the reversion to our ancestral cultural values. The cultures of our ancestors represented their level of …
Culture & Tourism
The hackneyed call for cultural revival has been sentimentally understood and interpreted to mean the reversion to our ancestral cultural values. The cultures of our ancestors represented their level of …
A black London taxi pulled up at the station and a smartly dressed African (Black) businessman alighted. He quickly paid his fare and hurried into the station. The taxi driver turned to the nearest Anglo-saxon, and declared ‘these Africans ain’t got any culture’.
Among Ndi Igbo (the Igbo speaking people) kola nut is revered and used for traditional ceremonies like marriage, funerals and anything of paramount importance.
The antiquity of Paris, its exotic landscapes and monumental gothic cathedrals that flourished during the epochal renaissance in Europe, made it the irresistible epicentre of tourism for decades, but the unfortunate onslaught of Jihadi terror attacks, inspired by the defamed Baghdadi led Islamic State IS, in the last couple of years, targeting centres of culture and other secular edifices, blighted the allure of the once pristine city.