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  Kalasiris: A look into ancient Egyptian sense of fashion and style

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  Our ancient Egyptian ancestors were a group of people with a functional sense of fashion in its varying styles and forms. They adorned their bodies with clothes that served physical, religious and ceremonial...

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  5 rare eye colours of Africans you would love to see

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  The colours of human eyes are warranted by the degree of melanin concentration in the eye and the mode by which the iris disperses light entering the eye. The iris is that part of the human eye made up...

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  William Henry Johnson, the first known African American lawyer was born on this day in 1811

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  The story of William Henry Johnson is one that is wrapped in resilience, determination and a will to thrive in the midst of oppression brought about by circumstances, circumstances brought about by men....

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  Duo Fastos: Pre-historic Egyptian calendars that have shaped our modern concept of time

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  Where do we draw the line between the Past, the Present and the Future? We stand in the Now; that functional gap between the Past and the Future and from this standpoint, we may have observed that every...

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  Men of Memory: The Congolese ‘Mbudye’ elites who used wooden boards to recount historical knowledge

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  The Luba tribe of The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the largest ethnic divisions in the nation. Their widespread presence in Congo took on traction around the 1500s in the geographical area constituting...

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  Why we struggle with mediocrity and choose in-between choices

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  The human race is now at a crossing, we are standing on the brinks of a global meltdown and we want to choose a way out. But the problem is; there is no ‘choosing’ now. Because we used up all...

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