When Chinese-looking persons enter the Nairobi City Market or Massai Market Fair in Kenya’s capital, they are often greeted with “Ni Hao” as they pass shops and stands. Some local shop-keepers have a broader Mandarin vocabulary, which helps them sell African woodcarvings, fabric, or other local souvenirs to Chinese tourists. China has recently become the […]
The Yoruba kingdoms are full of folklore, one of which is the Oloris (Oba’s wives) and the inheritance in the palace. KUNLE OLAYENI in this report looks at the myth surrounding why they are forbidden to remarry and how people who became monarchs in the lifetime of their fathers relate with their forebears in Yorubaland. […]
A new dawn in the history of Ile-Ife occasioned by the recent appointment of 40-year old Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja 11, as the Ooni of Ife, has continued to resonate with the Ooni set to declare Ife as a tourism zone in furtherance of his promise to foster peace and unity and bring economic […]
Delta State shows peaceful surroundings for tourism to blossom notwithstanding eco-system challenges. Omolola Itayemi on a revisit to Asaba and a precinct discovers several tourists' delights in state and their unending allure My initial pier of call was Mungo Park House, a renowned colonial vestige of pre-fabricated wooden building that now serves as a National […]
