The recent Tribal Chic 2025 fashion extravaganza brought together designers from across Africa, giving them an opportunity to showcase their talents and tell their stories. The event, organised by ...

Most importantly, they served as adornment because it helps in defining and identifying someone’s status, as well as what tribe or group they belonged to. The use of beads in Africa can be ...

African fabrics like kente or mud cloth make for affordable, vibrant wall hangings. Their bold patterns and hues make them ...

Colors are important in African dance costumes, with each color having a specific meaning. For example, red is usually a ...

Africa is a continent rich in different cultures, traditions, languages and perceptions of beauty. With many different tribes across the continent, beauty trends and ideals vary. Tribal make-up ...

The Wodaabe tribe are often known as the vaniest in Africa because of how their culture prizes beauty - but it is the men who are expected to make the effort, especially during the annual Gerewol ...

Africa's platinum plated tribe They defended their homeland from the Boers, the British and apartheid. Now the Bafokeng are the continent's richest. Daniel Howden reports ...

When they arrived at Fort James, soldiers tore the bead necklaces from their necks, thereby robbing them of their identities of family, tribe and culture.