By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja | Published on October 23, 2026. Introduction To the best of my knowledge, I came to understand that every community has a story to tell. Some stories are stored in writing, while others are passed down through oral traditions of the elders, family histories, local traditions, and the names of places
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By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja | Published on October 9, 2026. Introduction When I began looking into the history of the Goemai people of Plateau State, one thing quickly became clear to me: their story cannot be reduced to the name of a town, a language or even a single migration account. The Goemai, sometimes called
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Published on September 26, 2026. By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja. Introduction: Meeting the Sidama People through Their History When we talk about Ethiopia, it is easy to think first about the country’s ancient kingdoms, highland landscapes, churches, coffee and long historical record. But Ethiopia is much bigger culturally than those familiar images suggest. Across its different
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Published By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja on September 3, 2026. Introduction There are some places in the world that seem to carry the memories of the people who lived there, even when the streets become quiet and many houses are no longer permanently occupied. For example, Galičnik, a beautiful mountain village in North Macedonia. High on
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By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja | Published on August 6, 2026. Introduction Every community has a story worth telling. Others are to be found on the pages of books; and yet more are handed down through songs, festivals and in families themselves from one person to the next. The story of the Chutia people of India
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By Habila Ibrahim Introduction When I first saw a picture of Great Zimbabwe, I just stopped and stared. It was not only the size of the stone walls that draw my attention. It was how they fit together without a bit of mortar. I wondered what made this huge curvilinear of stone lie blocks which
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By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on 7th July, 2026. Introduction I first saw the Taj Mahal monument in a Bollywood film in Abuja, Nigeria. And what stuck me was not the white dome but the story behind it; the story is about an emperor who spent 22 years building a tomb because he promised
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By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on July 7, 2026. Introduction In my life before now, I didn’t grow up hearing a tribe named Marma people in Abuja. I first stumbled on them while reading about the Buddhist festivals in Asia, and one detail stopped me, that’s an ethnic group in Bangladesh that still writes
By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on July 7, 2026 Introduction I first saw a photo of the Pyramids once. Three stone mountains in the desert. Then I asked: “How did they built this?” The answer is still blowing minds. It look like the groundnut pyramid in Kano that we used to see on a
By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on 8th July, 2026. Introduction In central Tanzania there are people who measure wealth in cattle. No cash needed, no land needed but only cows. They are the Gogo. The Gogo (or Wagogo) are a Bantu tribe. They speak a language called Cigogo. Most of them live in the
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