Travel, Food & Places
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Food as Medicine: Indigenous Superfoods Backed by Science
Fonio, moringa, baobab — for centuries they’ve been staples in African kitchens and remedies in village medicine chests. Now, clinical…
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Street Food Diplomacy: Iconic Dishes Crossing Borders
From the smoky waakye stalls of Accra to the bustling kota stands of Soweto, African street food is crossing borders…
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Skeleton Coast
The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene…
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African cuisine
Traditionally, the various cuisines of Africa use a combination of locally available fruits, cereal grains and vegetables, as well as…
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21 Black-Authored Cookbooks to Add to Your Shelf
Like the rest of the food industry, food media has a long way to go when it comes to equal…
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Health passports may be introduced to ensure travellers don’t have coronavirus
They could be our ticket to travel freedom, and the key for cities to revive struggling economies. More and more…
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Lions spotted napping on road during coronavirus lockdown
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A pride of lions has…
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Ital Is Vital
The diet is, in part, a rejection of what the Rastafari call the Babylon system, a way of life seen…
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Udon Noodles with Edamame and West African Peanut Sauce Recipe
Serves 6-8Prep time: 15 minutesTotal time: 1 hour and 15 minutes Ingredients for the Mother Africa peanut sauce:1 tablespoon olive…
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This travel ad subverts a racist insult by giving it a positive twist
A travel company catering to modern black travelers, takes the racist and derogatory phrase “Go back to Africa” and gives…
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Divided island: How Haiti and the DR became two worlds
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a border and an island. But the two countries are very different today: the…
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The practical guide to traveling around Africa if you’re African
After I wrote an article early last year on the struggles of travelling in Africa on an African passport, I was overwhelmed…
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Who’s afraid of the giant African land snail?
The giant African land snail is seen as an invasive species throughout much of the tropics, but is it really…
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7 Common Myths About Traveling Africa – And Why They Are Wrong
Kristin Addis from Be My Travel Muse writes our regular column on solo female travel. It’s an important topic I can’t adequately…
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From Detroit to Liberia: Why I Left America To Find Home
I am moving back to Liberia.” The words shocked me to say out loud. But after 26 years in the…
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