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Visiting Africa: 6 Essential Questions to Ask Before Your Trip
So, you want to visit Africa? Knowing how to start the planning process can be seriously daunting: the continent offers an extraordinary amount of choice. And while choosing the right destination may seem like the most pressing...
Awakening The Tribes of Africa – A Book Review
The book is an intensely researched, decolonial, and theological blueprint that uncovers the hidden African history embedded within the biblical text. It serves as a striking critique of how Western institutionalized religion co...
Time – The Candle That Burns Even While Still Giving Light
How have we monetized our lives? We equate time with money, but time is not money. Time is life. It seems that, of all the things we appreciate each day, time is the one we care about the least. Especially when we have been told...
Ancient Chinese Engineering – How Sticky Rice Helped Build China’s Greatest Structures
For centuries, travelers have stood in awe before the towering walls of ancient China, wondering how structures built hundreds of years ago have survived earthquakes, harsh weather, and the relentless passage of time. The Great...
Bamboo Buildings – Bamboo Building Tour in Bali, Indonesia
From 23rd April 2026 to 28th April 2026, our CEO was on a fact-finding and benchmarking tour about building with bamboo in Bali, Indonesia, following an invitation from the builders Bamboo Pure and designers Ibuku Studio. The...
Four Most Common Types of Natural Building Techniques and Their Benefits
As climate change accelerates and concerns about sustainability grow, architects, builders, and homeowners around the world are searching for alternatives to conventional construction methods. The search for greener building...
They Are Not Feeding Our Babies: They Are Feeding A Market
This antique photograph was captured around 1916 by British anthropologist Thomas Narcote in Umuahia, Nigeria. Earlier today, Maazi Ogbonnaya Okoro II shared a photograph of Igbo children in Ụmụahịa taken around 1916, one hundred...
Herbal Remedies: How a Neem Branch Helped Me Overcome a Persistent Toothache
There is an interesting contradiction that many of us rarely stop to think about. Millions of people happily begin their mornings with a cup of tea or coffee without ever considering that both drinks originated as herbal remedies...
Clean Cooking Stove: That Uses Magma Rocks and Solar Energy
A Homegrown African Innovation Transforming Cooking, Communities, and the Environment Across much of Africa, cooking remains one of the most overlooked challenges affecting health, education, and environmental sustainability...