Asili Stories
What Is Mũgithi? Kenya’s One-Man-Guitar Tradition
Mũgithi is one of Kenya’s distinctive urban popular-music traditions: guitar-led, participatory, rooted in Gĩkũyũ language and constantly remade in modern social life.
What Is Mũgithi? Kenya’s One-Man-Guitar Tradition
Mũgithi is one of Kenya’s distinctive urban popular-music traditions: guitar-led, participatory, rooted in Gĩkũyũ language and constantly remade in modern social life.
Who Was Thomas Sankara? Burkina Faso, Reform an...
Thomas Sankara's name is closely associated with Burkina Faso's revolutionary period. Understanding his four years in office means studying both the ambitions and the record of his government.
Who Was Thomas Sankara? Burkina Faso, Reform an...
Thomas Sankara's name is closely associated with Burkina Faso's revolutionary period. Understanding his four years in office means studying both the ambitions and the record of his government.
How Specific Does a Heritage Design Need to Be?
A heritage T-shirt doesn't always need a full cultural history. Here is how to think about pride, place and people, and why the level of research should match the level...
How Specific Does a Heritage Design Need to Be?
A heritage T-shirt doesn't always need a full cultural history. Here is how to think about pride, place and people, and why the level of research should match the level...
The Cloth That Could Name a City
Àdìrẹ can carry more than pattern. In Ibadan, one famous indigo design even carried the city itself — its name, its landmarks and traces of the women who made it.
The Cloth That Could Name a City
Àdìrẹ can carry more than pattern. In Ibadan, one famous indigo design even carried the city itself — its name, its landmarks and traces of the women who made it.
Heritage Is Not a Museum
September 24 carries more than one history. Before it became South Africa’s Heritage Day, the date was associated with Shaka Day in KwaZulu — and in 2026 those histories meet...
Heritage Is Not a Museum
September 24 carries more than one history. Before it became South Africa’s Heritage Day, the date was associated with Shaka Day in KwaZulu — and in 2026 those histories meet...
One Letter Changes the Story: Afrobeat vs Afrob...
There is one letter between Afrobeat and Afrobeats. That makes the mistake easy. It also makes the correction useful. Because the extra s does not simply turn one genre into...
One Letter Changes the Story: Afrobeat vs Afrob...
There is one letter between Afrobeat and Afrobeats. That makes the mistake easy. It also makes the correction useful. Because the extra s does not simply turn one genre into...