How the people of the city of Gum embraced their differences and became whole...
Okot NyormoiCategory: News Gum was a small city state ruled by a wise and kindly king. The people loved their king. The king whose powers were immense did not abuse his authority. It was a delicate...
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Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsIn the Jan 17 2015 issue of Nile Journal, an anonymous author (turned out John Otim) penned a thought provoking article entitled Dilemma of a small African culture and its...
View ArticleGrowing up in the coastal city of Mombasa
Mansukh ShahCategory: News We lived in the small seaside town of Lamu some 225 miles north of Mombasa. Today Lamu is or was until Al Shaba, a bustling tourist spot. We lived in a rented house above the...
View ArticleDilemma of a small African culture and its language
AnonymousCategory: News IntroductionAt some point in history the gradual shift long in the works, from the spoken to the written word, as the mainstay of culture becomes a tangible phenomenon. By the...
View ArticleVanishing Rock Art of Africa
John OtimCategory: News Once thought to be The Heart of Darkness where history was never made, Africa has come a long way. Few doubt now that Africans built the great Zimbabwe or that ancient Egyptian...
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John Otim & Ekkehard DoehringCategory: News The ideaThe activities of cattle herding and land cultivation practiced by early man were the stuff that prompted the emergence of culture and the rise...
View ArticleRunning out of gas on the highway: our experience
Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsRunning out of gas is a phrase commonly used but only figuratively. For us on June 28, 2014 at about 12.35 pm coming off a bridge on Interstate 10 West, Louisiana, USA,...
View ArticleLast glance at graceful world of Acholi culture now disappearing
John OtimCategory: NewsJohn Otim is the Editor of Nile Journal One hot afternoon a long time ago in a still young world six teenage girls who were best of friends set out in search of firewood and...
View ArticleDiaspora man home in Africa and doing the right thing
John OtimCategory: NewsJohn Otim follows Diaspora Man as he returns to Africa and struggles to cope in a new place Africa was home and Ahmed recently returned but encountering multiple difficulties...
View ArticleKinshasa Chronicles, one Diaspora man’s experience
JJ BolaCategory: NewsJJ Bola is based in London, born in the DRC, blogger, writer, poet and coach I was filled with so much anticipation when I booked the tickets. It was slowly dawning on me that...
View ArticleHow the people of the city of Gum embraced their differences and became whole...
Okot NyormoiCategory: News Gum was a small city state ruled by a wise and kindly king. The people loved their king. The king whose powers were immense did not abuse his authority. It was a delicate...
View ArticleLanguages never die they evolve mutate and live on
Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsIn the Jan 17 2015 issue of Nile Journal, an anonymous author (turned out John Otim) penned a thought provoking article entitled Dilemma of a small African culture and its...
View ArticleGrowing up in the coastal city of Mombasa
Mansukh ShahCategory: News We lived in the small seaside town of Lamu some 225 miles north of Mombasa. Today Lamu is or was until Al Shaba, a bustling tourist spot. We lived in a rented house above the...
View ArticleDilemma of a small African culture and its language
AnonymousCategory: News IntroductionAt some point in history the gradual shift long in the works, from the spoken to the written word, as the mainstay of culture becomes a tangible phenomenon. By the...
View ArticleVanishing Rock Art of Africa
John OtimCategory: News Once thought to be The Heart of Darkness where history was never made, Africa has come a long way. Few doubt now that Africans built the great Zimbabwe or that ancient Egyptian...
View ArticleNew Museum of African Culture & Traditional Health Practices will tell the...
John Otim & Ekkehard DoehringCategory: News The ideaThe activities of cattle herding and land cultivation practiced by early man were the stuff that prompted the emergence of culture and the rise...
View ArticleRunning out of gas on the highway: our experience
Okot NyormoiCategory: NewsRunning out of gas is a phrase commonly used but only figuratively. For us on June 28, 2014 at about 12.35 pm coming off a bridge on Interstate 10 West, Louisiana, USA,...
View ArticleLast glance at graceful world of Acholi culture now disappearing
John OtimCategory: NewsJohn Otim is the Editor of Nile Journal One hot afternoon a long time ago in a still young world six teenage girls who were best of friends set out in search of firewood and...
View ArticleDiaspora man home in Africa and doing the right thing
John OtimCategory: NewsJohn Otim follows Diaspora Man as he returns to Africa and struggles to cope in a new place Africa was home and Ahmed recently returned but encountering multiple difficulties...
View ArticleKinshasa Chronicles, one Diaspora man’s experience
JJ BolaCategory: NewsJJ Bola is based in London, born in the DRC, blogger, writer, poet and coach I was filled with so much anticipation when I booked the tickets. It was slowly dawning on me that...
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