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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By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on July 9, 2026. Introduction I was imagining it as a stadium so big it held 50,000 people. You will not see anything like phones or TVs there only just sand, swords, and roars. That’s the Colosseum. The Colosseum (or Flavian Amphitheatre) is in Rome, Italy. Built around 70-80
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By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on July 10, 2026. Introduction In the northern Philippines, there’s a people who fish with spears, weave magic into baskets, and still tell stories of panagbibi (ancestral spirits). They’re the Gaddang. The Gaddang are an Indigenous group in Cagayan Valley, Luzon. And their language name is Gaddang, part of
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By Habila Ibrahim | Last Updated on July 10, 2026. Introduction The first time I saw Tsonga dance on the internet I was interested. And anyone who has ever watched a cultural dance of the Tsonga people would understand the reason for the survival of their traditions through the generations. Their story is told in
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By Habila Ibrahim, Abuja | Updated on July 15, 2026 Introduction I grew up in Abuja hearing about a place called, Forbidden City. I only read about the Forbidden Fruit. But I come across the forbidden City watching CGTN News. For the Christian faithful, the word “forbidden” is known but we are not referring to
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