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  Mental health and the problem of out-casting the ‘mad’ in present-day Afrikan communities

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

              “To be is to belong, to belong is to be.” – Iroegbu, 1995. Nicole M. Monteiro reveals in the article; ‘Addressing...

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  How living in an Afrikan mud-hut safeguards the eco-system whiles building wealth

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  “Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our own imagination.” – Chinua Achebe. One of the prime reasons why...

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  5 rare mouth-watering fruits from Africa you would love to try

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  Pre-historic Africans dwelt mainly on wild fruits, berries and hunted game for their nutritional needs. As the population expanded with the decline of the Ice-age, Africans of old took to planting the...

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  The Joy of Nudity: Why the Karamajong people of Uganda love to walk ‘naked’

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  The Karamajong tribesmen are a group of agro-pastoralists (a group of people who combine farming with cattle rearing/herding) occupying North-east Uganda. Historians report that they migrated from Ethiopia...

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  Why I am afraid of the rainbow: A Kalahari Bushman’s tale

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  Let me tell you a story; my tribesmen belong to the cohort of people named ‘the oldest living’ group of people on Earth, we are the San, sons and daughters of the Sun named ‘bushmen’...

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  Mar: The Holy Honey Healing ritual of Ethiopia’s honey churches

  Nii Ashaley Asé Ashiley

  “Honour physicians for their services for the Lord created them; for their gifts of healing came from the Most High, and they are rewarded by the King…The Lord created medicine out of the...

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