December 2011
7 posts
Wild Frontiers
Wild Frontiers is a pioneering, award winning travel company that specialises in taking small groups of it’s discerning clientele to places that don’t tend to be part of the popular tourist trails and return offering them a unique experience, and one of the places on its itinerary is Ethiopia. Inviting potential travellers to look beyond the usual headlines of a no go area defined by...
1,000 Stars Rift Valley Music Festival
The Festival of 1,000 Stars takes place in Arba Minch in the heart of the Rift Valley every December. It’s a 10-hour drive south from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa; over three days, you can catch the traditional music of most of the 50 indigenous tribes who inhabit the southern regions.
Many of the tribes hail from extremely remote areas and all enjoy their own unique language and...
Ncwala Festival
The Ncwala or iNcwala, also known as ‘Festival of the First Fruits,’ is an important religious ritual that takes place in the latter half of December, and continues into January of the successive year. It is an annual ceremony lasting three weeks that unites the inhabitants of Swaziland in order to gain blessings from ancestors. This important event also serves the purpose of...
International Festival of the Sahara
Every December, two towns in the southern region of Tunisia, share festivals dedicated to oasis life. Tozeur and Douz, about 65 miles apart schedule festivals back-to-back to honor their ancient history of nomadic life, camel caravans and traditional music.The very first festival, called the Camel festival, began in 1910 when Tunisia was under French rule. In 1967 it took on its modern identity...
The Afropolitan Shop
The Afropolitan Shop is an online boutique by Beverly Lwenya, a Kenyan-American with a desire to tell an African Design Story. It began as a blog in 2007 called The Afropolitan Network, which highlighted stories and images of what black people from all the continents were doing in the Diaspora. The hobby grew into a passion and now a full-time pursuit. Beverly aims to celebrate African...