Abissa is a tradition of the N’zema people of south-eastern Côte d’Ivoire and south-western Ghana. It comprises an annual fourteen-day festival and is a time of forgiveness and rebirth – a time to let go of all grudges and celebrate the past year through creative traditional wear, dance, music and spirituality.
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Does the fact that 1–54 occupies a space such as Somerset House mean that there has been a shift in a Western appreciation for African art?
The hunter has for too long been celebrated for his exploits of the hunt. The time has come for the Lion to tell his side of the story.
Do you remember when we did the things we were supposed to do? The things that brought us all respect, status, money and a good quality husband or wife?
The rise of Islamophobia has coincided with widespread commodification of Muslim culture. Muslim cultural aesthetics, fashion and iconography are taking centre stage in the visual economy.
At the Festival of the King of Oussouye, girls and young women participate in traditional wrestling alongside the men. The area, in Senegal’s southern Casamance region, is home to most of the country’s female wrestlers.
The presence of violent religious extremism is as old in Bangladesh as it is globally. And though the Republic of Bangladesh has thus far succeeded in thwarting larger scale attempts by local and international outfits, contentions that the Bangladeshi state is an aberration until it conforms to a particularly unique take on shariah make this an issue that cannot be taken lightly.
Dhaka had just suffered the country’s worst terrorist attack. The cold-blooded clinical way it was carried out jolted me, and the entire country, as nothing ever had before.
Without doubt, the gardens of paradise are the ultimate utopias of Muslim consciousness. But what does the Qur’an say about gardens, landscapes and the promise of paradise?