The only salvation for Africans is to provide the indigenous cultures the dignity they
deserve.
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.
The Centre for African Aesthetics
Tel 254 20 2437864
P O Box 20019-00200 City Square,
Nairobi, Kenya (EA)
info@thecentreforafricanaesthetics.org
By David Maillu Published September 22, 2023 In my Akamba community there is a new social function organized by a group of women called Ndwae tokone mwaitu which means Give me company to see my mother. The group comprises adult women is in honour of the mother. The...
By David Maillu Published September 18, 2023 Is One Wife Enough for a Man? sounds like a stupid question to married women. Every married woman lives with the strength of belief with which she can brag to her husband, “I have got everything you need.” When fighting the...
By David Maillu Published September 11, 2023 It is over a century since colonized African states got their independence. They got it and celebrated the acquisition with the hope that, from then onwards they would be in charge of their destiny. Time had come for them...
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...