The board of the Africa Film Academy, the organisers of the Africa Movie Academy Awards, announced the nominees for the 19th edition of the continental awards ceremony on Thursday, September 21, 2023, ...

In a world where African traditions are often misunderstood or misrepresented, Queen Osun emerges as a powerful voice advocating for the preservation and celebration of these rich cultural heritages.

Note on Terminology and Orthography -- Introduction: Charting the Voyage / Henry John Drewal -- Mami Wata and the Sierra Leone Diamonds: Wealth and Enslavement in Men's Dreams and the State Economy / ...

Uunle Afolayan’s Anikulapo, Jade Osiberu’s Gang of Lagos, and CJ Obasi’s Mami Water have secured multiple nominations ahead of the 19th Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA. The board of the Africa Film ...

Nne Miri and Onabuluwa are deities responsible for the phenomenon in Igbo culture known as Ogbanje. However, the Mami Water does not give things freely, she interferes with the Ogbanje’s ability to ...

Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water deity Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water”) is the focus of a traveling exhibition that opened Wednesday, April 1, at the ...

Is there any other precious natural resource so vital to human survival as water? Over eons, civilizations on distant continents have expressed their awe of water’s life-giving properties, as well as ...

Ghanaian scientists are sure they have found a clue to the mystery mermaid called "mami water" which has been at the centre of folk tales in many riverside communities in West Africa. The scientists ...

Accra, Ghana — Ghanaian scientists are sure they have found a clue to the mystery mermaid, called "mami water", which has been the centrepiece of folk tales in many riverside communities in West ...

Guitar Boy, Sir Victor Uwaifo, is dead. But the ‘Mami Water,’ which he saw at the Bar Beach and sang about in 1966 when he was just 25 years old, lives on. Today, the ‘Mami Water’ swam all the way up ...

One of the gas oil pipelines of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) leading to its facility at Mami Water, a community in the Volta Region has reportedly been damaged. A ...