Imisioluwa Ogunsunlade
Published works
20 pieces
Mau Mau Uprising: Bloodshed for Kenyan Freedom
The Mau Mau Uprising is another African history relating to the national activist movement for freedom in Kenya. It was a bloody war of liberation that lasted from 1952 to 1963 and is said to be the foundation of Kenyan independence.
1/7/2023 · 4 min
Maasai: Power in the Blood
The Maasai are an ethnic group who inhabit Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania. A semi-nomadic group, they are one of the most popular locals in the world, not least because they dwell close to the African game parks but because of their peculiar dress, customs and food.
1/7/2023 · 1 min
Kumbwada: Where Women Rule
Kumbwada is an ancient kingdom with a population of about 33,000 people which is located in Niger, a state in the Northern part of Nigeria
1/7/2023 · 2 min
Traditional Marriage in Hausa Land
The marriage traditions of the Hausa ethnic group in Nigeria
1/7/2023 · 3 min
Calling Time: Harmful Traditional Practices in Africa and the Need for Change
Meanwhile, traditional practices are considered detrimental after being subjected to and evaluated under objective lenses of biological, social, psychological and natural sciences and deemed not to meet the psycho-social needs of man nor are necessary for his development and physical well-being, and therefore negate scientific theory and best practices. Such traditions are known as Harmful Traditional Practices (HTP).
1/7/2023 · 7 min
The Tale of Anansi and Nothing
A folktale about 'Anansi', the legendary Ghanian god.
1/7/2023 · 3 min
Sàngó and His Wives
Sàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; and as Jakuta or Badé is an Orisha, a deity in Yoruba religion. He is a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third Alaafin of the Oyo Kingdom prior to his posthumous deification.
1/7/2023 · 4 min
Àkàrà-Acaraje: Unravelling Nigerian-Brazilian Culinary Ties
It is surprising how much similarity is yet to be uncharted between the African diaspora and the motherland. Here, therefore, we try to draw a nexus between the Brazilian Acaraje and Nigerian Àkàrà.
1/7/2023 · 7 min
The Ugandan Law Concerning Fortune-Tellers
The events in this folktale led to a new custom in Uganda in the old days; but now there is a new law, and no one may go to a witchdoctor at all, and if the police find a man telling fortunes they take him to prison. But still some people are naive enough to go in secret, and have their fortunes told, even though they know this story.
1/7/2023 · 4 min
The Myth of Bayajida
The Hausa myth of Bayajida accounts for the origin of the Hausa. As a wanderer, he came to a place currently called Borno. He was noted for his intelligence and bravery to the extent that the king gave him his daughter’s hand in marriage.
1/7/2023 · 3 min
Esunsun: A Tale of Edible Insects
Esunsun aka Termites are edible insects eaten in parts of Nigeria.
1/7/2023 · 7 min
Aba Women's War
Pioneered by women from the Owerri and Calabar provinces of south-eastern Nigeria, the “Women’s War” in Igbo history or the “Aba Women’s Riots of 1929” in British colonial historywas an immense rejoinder to the oppressive and repressive administration of the British colonial administrators in south-eastern Nigeria. This riot became one of the meanest challenge against British rule in the colony and an epochal case of feminist thought and tendencies as well as anti-colonial revolt.
1/7/2023 · 4 min
Revisiting Fictions on Pre-literate Africa
The advent of the European world left Africa with little or no choice. It was indeed a brutal condition of either immediate adaptation or cultural annihilation. Therefore, the question that remained pertinent in the minds of early writers was the issue of African autonomy and cultural splendor.
1/7/2023 · 20 min
Monyohe: A South African Folktale
The essence of this folktale does not only lie in its entertaining abilities, but in its educating dimensions as virtues are rewarded, truth is vindicated and vices are punished.
1/7/2023 · 6 min
Jinns in Northern Nigeria
Jinns are simply spirits that were known to have been created by God himself according to the Islamic religion. Although they possess supernatural powers which are apparently not inclusive rights of human beings such as strength, invisibility, teleportation, trickery and transformation, Jinns are parallel to humans in an extra-terrestrial plane and, like humans, they possess the ability to eat, drink, and marry and the freewill to choose between good and evil.
1/7/2023 · 4 min
Queen Amina
Queen Amina is a heroine known in and outside Africa. More than a myth, Queen Amina’s legend is a replica of history and it lays claims to historical places, faces and figures. Her story has at its core a moral and inspiring dimension and also imbues a sense of self-worth among the people. As such, retelling her story and preserving the legend does not only educate the African reader and give him confidence in his cultural heritage, but also enlightens the foreign reader about Africa, putting an
1/7/2023 · 3 min
Praise Poems in Africa
Oral poetry in Africa has been an artistic compendium of the beliefs and culture of the African people. There are many forms of oral poetry in the African society such as the invocative poetry, didactic poetry, praise poetry, special occasion poetry, lyrics, funeral poetry, ritual poetry, satirical poetry and epic poetry.
1/7/2023 · 8 min
Centering Africa: A Perspective on African Herbal Remedies
African societies had a thriving structure, culture, tradition, belief system as well as curative methods and measures which formed the thread that held and kept autochthons since time.
1/7/2023 · 6 min
Olúrónbí
The folktale and nursery rhyme, Olúrónbí
1/7/2023 · 1 min
Taking You Through the Ere
Aesthetic Dimensions and Significance of The Ere Festival.
1/7/2023 · 11 min