LEBOKU NEW YAM FESTIVAL 2011

Leboku is the annual New Yam Festival celebrated in Ugep, cross river state of Nigeria to honor of the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land in Ugep, one of the five settlements of Yakurr.[1][2] The...

Painting, sculpture exhibition on women’s beauty

Liberality and harmony, the ultimate unity of Yin and Yang are what the audience can feel from paintings and statues by the couple Le Cong Thanh and Nguyen Kim Thai."The exhibition displays 30 paintings and...

interview with architect JACQUES HERZOG

Herzog & de Meuron is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (1950) and Pierre de Meuron (1950), closely parallel one another, with both attending the ETH in Zurich. In...

I'm a subsistence farmer get me out of here

After the Year of Africa, Ghanaians are still stuck with degrading levels of toil and poverty. Patience a local headmistress takes us round Tsibu Bethel a subsistence village in Ghana’s Volta region. We meet...

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