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Viaje a Casamance

Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people

Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people Trip to Casamance in Senegal with Mara Bagossi...

Emir Kano Nigeria

Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano, the magnificent celebration in Northern Nigeria

Back home after the Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano… Ranka ya Dede! (May you live long!) shouts the people and...

Sharo

Sharo Ceremony, the scars of Fulani love in Nigeria

Sharo fulani ceremony in northern Nigeria We travelled to northern Nigeria to attend a Sharo or Shadi Fulani ceremony. There,...

Bogolan

Bogolán, the language of textiles

Bogolan, Mali’s earthenware textiles Bogolan, ‘mud textiles’ in the Bambara language, is the type of dyeing technique that artists in...

Kankurang

Kankurang, the Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa

Kankurang, Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa Kankurang, a Mandinka initiation rite practised mainly in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau....

Sahel pueblo con mujeres y niños

Planet Sahel, a borderline territory

The Sahel is a land of transition between the desert and the savannah that precedes the jungles of the south....

Makoko, community and resistance in gigantic Lagos (Nigeria)

Makoko is like an island in the chaos of the big city. It is a floating neighbourhood and we are...

Dancing to the sound of Afrobeat in Lagos, Nigeria

To be recognised as the father of a musical style is no small matter. In Lagos, the economic centre of...

Benin City and Edo culture, pure Nigerian history

In the Africa Overland expedition we did in Kumakonda between March and April 2023, we knew that Nigeria was not...

Discovering the Dozo hunters, an esoteric and powerful brotherhood of the Malinké Country

Among the enormous variety of worldviews that exist in West Africa today, we can find brotherhoods or confraternities. These are...

Mercedes overland truck 4×4 for sale

Characteristics of our Mercedes 4×4 overland truck I only attend to people who are really interested: +34 635419035 or info@kumakonda.com...

Travel to Benin – Travel guide to discover the voodoo country

Travel to Benin. Its main richness is its immense cultural heritage, its varied traditions (some forty ethnic groups), and its...