Africans' Culture

The Wakandan Style and Where it Came From – Exploring the Tribal Culture of Africa By Akanksha Ghansiyal -March 14, 2019 Wakandan Style © Marvel Studios (from africafashionguide.com) Being the first Marvel movie that was nominated for, and win an Oscar (in the categories of Best Original Music Score, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design)—there has been no stopping “The Black Panther” since its release in 2018. One cannot deny how the win has been historic for African women: Ruth E. Carter for best costume design, and Hannah Beachler for best production design. But if you’ve watched the movie, you’d know how the costumes in the movie were anything but primitive (imagine this is said with the same disgust as Okoye talking about guns). Wakandan Style © Marvel Studios (from tenor.com) The Afri-futuristic costumes designed by Ms. Carter makes us want to thank her for keeping the African culture and tradition alive. As in the comi

Did You Know That The period in which these Ashanti Ballads are set is the late 1950's when the Gold Coast became Ghana - the first African colony to achieve independence. Much has changed since those days. The ballads record aspects of a traditional way of life with which the modern Ghanaian city dweller is losing contact. For the benefit of strangers to Ghana, the following notes have been provided to give a background to the Ashanti Region around the time of independence. The name Ashanti was used by British colonial administrators to describe the Kingdom of Asante. Geography The Ashanti Region of Ghana lies at the heart of the West African tropical rain forest. The only major city is the capital, Kumasi, which is about 150 miles inland from the Gulf of Guinea. The area of Ashanti is 9400 square miles (approximately one fifth that of England) with a population of about one million at the period independence, to which the ballads refer. Hist