Night Running in Africa Tribal Art, Witchcraft, or Sadism Whether night running is an ancient tribal art, a calling from the spirits, witchcraft, an act of Sadism, or OCD remains a mystery since night running is a considered a secret act to the runner and the community victims. Night Running in Africa  Learn more about Africa’s storytelling: African folktale traditions Cultural history and beliefs Night running in Africa tribal art, witchcraft, or sadism The belief is night running runs in the family or you can become a night runner by use of witchcraft placed on a person. The nighttime practice of running around communities and causing havoc, naked or clothed, is carried out across Africa but especially in the Kenyan regions of Njiru, Limuru, Ruiru, Ruai, and Thika.   Closely associated with witchcraft, night runners are urged to run by spirits that choose a target at random in their neighborhood while beating tin roofs with wooden sticks, throwing dirt a...

Updated November 2025: Reflecting on the Year of Return's lasting impact—Ghana's diaspora tourism hit 1.2M visitors in 2024, up 20% from 2019 goals.] African Diaspora and Back to Africa Movement Collection Stories tracing the journeys, ideals, and historical roots of the African return-to-Africa dream. Ghana Back to Africa Movement 2019 and the History of Back to Africa in America 1817. Chic African Culture America and Ghana Wants Blacks To Go back to Africa In the first back to Africa movement The American Colonization Society (ACS) platform to freed blacks in America was if you do not like it here in America, ships are leaving the harbor, and we want to help you go back to Africa. Ghana recently unveiled a 15-year-long tourism plan that seeks to increase the annual number of tourists to Ghana from one million to eight million per year by 2027. Discovering my roots in Ghana Africa 2019 The American Colonization Society (ACS) had its origins in ...

The JSON Kitchen: A Recipe for Looting the Royal Storeroom | The African Gourmet THE JSON KITCHEN - WEEK 1 The JSON Kitchen: A Recipe for Looting the Royal Storeroom Deconstructing political corruption one data structure at a time. A new weekly series. Some stories are whispered by old women when the generator dies. Others need to be read by the cold, clear light of code. This is both. Here at The African Gourmet, we believe that to understand a thing—be it a soup or a system of power—you must understand its recipe. Its ingredients. Its method. So today, we're taking the folktale "The Ministers Who Drank the Royal Storeroom" and cooking it into a format any modern system can understand: JSON . Meditate on this data structure. Let the variables speak. "recipe" : {    ...

The Science and Proverb Behind a Dog's Sniff. Dogs Sniff First. They Bark Second. An African Proverb You Can Smell. Mbwa huangalia kabla ya kulia — A dog looks before it barks. Published on The Olfactory Heritage Archive | African Wisdom and Stories This isn't just a saying; it's a living, breathing truth you can witness daily. Watch a street vendor in Accra or a herder in the Kenyan highlands. Before a sound is made, the dog's nose is at work. The air shimmers above its wet snout as it pulls in the story of your entire day—the sweat on your skin, the dust on your shoes, the faint chemical trace of fear, or the scent of a lie. If the dog then backs away, the elders offer a warning: Never trust a smile that makes a dog stop sniffing. Science, it turns out, is just catching up to the wisdom of the proverb. Researchers have found that the gentle, warm puf...

Mudslide Smelled Like Grandma's River However Far the Stream Flows, It Never Forgets Its Source West African proverb (often heard in Ghana and Sierra Leone) The day the flood brought childhood back 2017 Sierra Leone mudslide. Aminata was 19. The hill behind Freetown collapsed and buried half her neighbourhood. She survived by clinging to a mango tree. When the dirty water hit her face she suddenly smelled and tasted something impossible: Red mud + river weeds + her grandmother's old laundry soap from 15 years ago. She told reporters: "One second everything stopped. I was five again, playing in the stream behind the village." That smell-taste was the proverb hugging her in the middle of death: no matter how far life drags you, home is still in your n...

The Gentrification of Time: Measuring the Disappearance of Slow Food The Gentrification of Time: Measuring the Disappearance of Slow Food How the 4-hour collard green tradition is vanishing from Black America—and what we're losing beyond the recipe By The African Gourmet | November 2025 African Cuisine Hub Science & Folklore African Culture Proverb Repository The Statistical Disappearance The numbers tell a story of cultural erosion: In Black American households: 1970: 85% cooked greens weekly 2024: 34% of households under 35 cook greens weekly 72% of Black millennials cannot identify proper collard greens at market In West African cities: 1990: 88% shopped daily markets for fresh ingredients 2024: 41% maintain daily market visits...

African Spirit Sudoku: Learn African Ancestral Beliefs Through Numbers Ancestor Wisdom Sudoku Balance sacred numbers 4 • 7 • 9 • 16 and learn respectful ancestor-belief facts. African Spirit Sudoku 3 9 7 4 9 4 4 7 Check Solve Reset What the Numbers Represent 3 – The unity of ancestors, the living, and the unborn: the continuous circle of life. 4 – The natural elements and directions guiding ritual balance in African cosmology. 7 – Symbol of completeness, wisdom, and spiritual harmony. 9 – The sacred cycle of renewal and continuation through the ancestral line. Complete the Sudoku to balance these spiritual numbers, revealing harmony between logic and heritage. Play More African Puzzles African Food Word Search Puzzle African Proverb Memory...