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Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo collaboration reconnects African culture and western musical traditions
KALW - California
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August 29, 2025
Through their beautiful collaboration, two musical legends Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma show us how cultures that seem worlds apart are connected through music. In their program Sarabande Africaine, this week in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Berkeley...
Afenifere Decries Spate Of Kidnappings In Kwara, Ogun, Ondo, Lagos-Benin Expressway
New Telegraph
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August 29, 2025
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed serious concern over the onslaught by bandits in parts of Kwara State, leading to the kidnapping of a monarch’s family members and the sacking of about 16 communities, as well...
Afenifere concerned over kidnapping in Kwara, Ogun, Ondo, Lagos-Benin expressway
Daily Post
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August 29, 2025
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has expressed concern over the onslaught by bandits in parts of the South Western region. Afenifere is worried particularly over the recent attacks in Kwara State, which led to the kidnapping...
Nigerian Police, Church Leaders Brutalised, Beat Me Into Coma During Convention For Asking Question–First African Church PRO
Sahara Reporters
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A Public Relations Officer of the First African Church Mission, Mr. Soneye Sunday, has accused Nigerian police officers and top leaders of his church of brutal assault, attempted murder, and cover-up during the mission’s recent convention held in...
Benin Traditional Council Suspends Two Chiefs from Oba’s Palace: A Detailed Examination
Alexa.ng
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August 28, 2025
In a significant development within the revered Benin Kingdom, the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) has announced the immediate suspension of two prominent chiefs from the palace of His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, the...
Pedaling Equality: How Benin’s Women Are Changing the Face of African Cycling
The Baltimore Times - Maryland
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August 29, 2025
Team Africa Rising (TAR) and the Benin Cycling Federation (FEBECY) united in 2019 during the African Continental Championships in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Team Africa Rising, the founding entity of Rwanda’s National Cycling Team, had recently...
Nigeria, AfDB push to deepen trade with Benin, Cameroon
Punch
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August 28, 2025
The African Development Bank, in collaboration with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, has launched a technical workshop to strengthen trilateral trade cooperation among Nigeria, Benin, and Cameroon. The two-day...
Turning Nigeria’s Culture and Tourism into Money-spinner
The News Chronicle
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August 27, 2025
Nigeria is blessed! But what are we doing with the divine blessing? Harnessing it to prosper us or frittering it away? I am a culture enthusiast and have been involved in research and advocacy for decades on how to promote and explore our arts and...
Their imperial majesties and pernicious romance of a bygone age
Tribune Online
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August 30, 2025
TODAY it is the fashion to be an Imperial Majesty. Kings across the land are keying in. Among the children of Oodua, there were historically only two, but there was another monarch with a throne set apart by culture and the spirituality of the...
The Disheartening Ethnic Slurs Against Governor Okpebholo
Leadership
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August 27, 2025
The Nigerian Constitution is clear and unambiguous about the position of a governor. Section 176(2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) states that “the Governor of a State shall be the Chief Executive of that State.” By implication, a governor...
8 poets illuminate Benin's Arabic Poetry Forum
Sharjah24
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Sharjah’s cultural vision in Africa The Arab Poetry Forums in Africa are part of Sharjah’s broader cultural initiative, guided by the directives of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah. These forums aim to promote the Arabic language, support...
Why the world should look to Africa for education innovation
The Citizen
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Within a decade, one in three entrants to the global workforce will be from Africa. Over the next 30 years, the majority of the world’s new workers may well be on the continent. What they learn in the classroom and how they learn it is a vital...
11 children rescued as Police arrest suspected traffickers
Prompt News Online
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August 26, 2025
The Benue State Police Command has arrested a suspected child trafficker and rescued 11 children in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area. Police spokesperson, DSP Catherine Edet, confirmed the development in a telephone interview on Monday, saying...
Benin marks int'l day for remembrance of slave trade and abolition
Xinhua News Agency
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OUIDAH, Benin, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Afro-descendants together with political, administrative and religious leaders paid tribute on Saturday to the victims of the slave trade in Ouidah, a historic city in southern Benin, on the occasion of the...
Suspected trafficker nabbed as police rescue 11 children in Benue
Punch
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August 26, 2025
The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspected child trafficker and the rescue of 11 children in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of the state. Speaking on Monday in a telephone interview, the Police Public Relations...
Benue State Police Arrest Female Child Trafficker After Rescue of 11 Children Sold for N30,000 Each
Alexa.ng
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In a shocking case that has sent ripples of outrage through Nigeria, the Benue State Police Command has arrested a suspected female child trafficker, Mhirve Terlumun, following the rescue of 11 children allegedly trafficked from Katsina-Ala Local...
Culture in the heartland
The Times Leader - Ohio
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Perpetua Nsabimana, wife of the Rev. Daniel Niyonzima, prays during service at St. Paul's United Methodist Church on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa...
Oduduwa and politics of symbolic ancestry, by Abdulrazaq Hamzat
Eagle Online
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August 30, 2025
Across history, communities have often rallied around unifying figures who provided leadership, structure, and identity. In Yorubaland, Oduduwa is remembered as such a figure. He is commonly described as the progenitor of the Yoruba race, but this...
Benue Police Nab Child Trafficking Suspect, Rescue 11 Children Sold for N30,000 Each
Nigerian Eye
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August 25, 2025
The Benue State Police Command has apprehended Mhirve Terlumun, a suspected child trafficker, following the rescue of 11 children trafficked from Katsina-Ala Local Government Area to Edo State. Terlumun allegedly sold the children, aged 5 to 20,...
Grant Delays Threaten Cultural and Language Studies Programs
Inside Higher Ed
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For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a particular area or region. Now, those centers are...