The only salvation for Africans is to provide the indigenous cultures the dignity they
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The Centre for African Aesthetics (The CAA) was registered in Kenya on September 27, 2001 as an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). Flag-bearer of African Renaissance. The CAA, that became operational in 2012, is devoted to the promotion of African cultural roots.
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By David Maillu Published September 4, 2023 Why is it rare to find unmarried person in traditional Africa, woman or man? In that tradition, even when a family knew their son was infertile, they found a way of getting him a family he could proudly call it his own. If...
By David Maillu Published September 1, 2023 Where did humans come from? Out of what materials are they made? Did they exist somewhere in any other form before they were born? Are they living individual energies that are chips from the supreme energy of the cosmos? Any...
By David Maillu Published August 28, 2023 The environment in which the African has been living has given him maximum opportunities to learn and master the biochemistry of his habitat regarding what to eat, how to bear himself, what his environment can offer and the...
By David Maillu Published June 18, 2023 Africans are victims of a long psychological warfare created by the Whiteman. Take your country Kenya, for example. The British colonized Kenya for seventy years during which they planted their culture deeply. They grabbed Kenya...
By David Maillu Published June 11, 2023 The Akamba community of eastern Kenya was probably one of the most affected communities by the East African Slave Trade. History has got it that by the 1700s the Akamba community dominated the long distance trade market between...
By David Maillu Published May 29, 2023 Whether the Azimio group in charge of political demonstration is right or wrong, the three claims they make cannot be wished away. The demand to have the Server opened in which Raila claims to have got 8.1 million votes against...
By David Maillu Published May 14, 2023 Is bride price still relevant today? In my Akamba traditional setting, the bride price was a must for any man who wanted to have a wife. The value of a woman was so high that you could not be given a whole girl for a wife free of...
Traditional times when having sex was available to everybody are gradually getting out of version. In traditional society, outside the capitalist world, everybody was employed in whatever business of the community, be it in livestock, fishing, farming and whatever....
By David Maillu Published February 26, 2023 One extraordinarily invaluable thing in traditional Africa is that it had no prisons. Prisons were introduced to Africa by colonial governments because it is part of the western culture. This does not mean there were no law...
By David Maillu Published February 26, 2023 Mutua M Mwengi , you requested me to give a comment regarding the published divorce of Bill Gates and his wife after living together for 27 years. As a leader in African Religion, let me state that in traditional African...
Introduction There is not a single race in the world that has been subjected to the incredible human atrocities like the ones inflicted on the Black race by non-black races. This has been done particularly through the SLAVE TRADE and COLONIALISM holocausts. The Slave...
By David G Maillu One of the most sensitive subjects in Kenya (Africa) is polygamy. Why? Different mind sets have different reasons for this, some of the reasons based religious interpretation. Most white people think that every African man is a polygamist....