The African Gourmet explores African food, history, and culture through recipes, folktales, and proverbs written for curious ...

When you pour a glass of water or grab a bottle from the store, it feels brand new, clean, cold, and fresh. But the water you drink is often ancient. Some of it fell as rain thousands, even millions, ...

Learn plantain indigenous names, Maghrebi vs Sahelian couscous, and palm wine rituals, with buying guides and how-to-use tips. Liberian rice bread with ripe plantain —turn very ripe plantains into a ...

Trace a ray of sunshine leaving the surface of the sun, racing across space, and striking the African continent. From orbit, the first thing it illuminates is a vast sweep of color: a golden-beige ...

Captain JAMES BRIGGS (of Dighton, Mass.), seeks stout and able-bodied Seamen for a swift and lucrative trading voyage aboard the sloop HOPE. · ROUTE: Providence → WINDWARD COAST of AFRICA → DANISH ...

What If Your Bad Choices Created a Monster? In the heart of our traditions, we know that a single rot can spoil the whole harvest. A sour spirit does not fester in secret; it seeps out, a poison that ...

In a village where the river curved like a calabash and the hills wore morning mist like a shawl, there stood a grove of ancient trees. People found shade there, birds sang first songs there, and the ...

Tolkien occasionally hints at loose correspondences—Middle-earth as a poetic name for the inhabited world, or “west/east/south” in compass terms—but he never locks his map to our continents. This is ...

Ever clutched your controller during a clutch moment in FIFA or explored vast worlds in Horizon Forbidden West? Those epic gaming experiences rely on more than code and creativity as they are rooted ...

In the boundless waters of Lake Victoria, which stretch across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, ancient stories tell of a single magical droplet of water that descended from the heavens and settled gently ...

African folktales, with their rich storytelling traditions, serve as powerful tools for understanding the impacts of Post-Traumatic Slave Disorder. The African folktale The Chains of the Past teaches ...

Sound is conveyed in a very capricious way through the atmosphere, and throughout history, humanity has strived to harness the power of sound for communication, celebration, and expression. The ...