The African Gourmet: African Cuisine, Folktales and Cultural Stories

Africa’s Hidden Stonehenge: The Ancient Stone Circles of Senegambia Africa’s Hidden Stonehenge: The Ancient Stone Circles of Senegambia Most people know about Stonehenge in England — but Africa has its own mysterious stone monuments. Scattered across the savannas of West Africa, more than 1,000 ancient stone circles mark sacred burial grounds. These circles, known as the Senegambia Stone Circles , stretch across modern-day Senegal , The Gambia , and Guinea . Where Is Senegambia? Senegambia is a region in West Africa along the Atlantic Ocean. It covers parts of Senegal (a coastal nation), The Gambia (Africa’s smallest mainland country, surrounded by Senegal), and sections of Guinea . These countries form the heartland of the ancient stone circle sites. What Are the Senegambia Stone Circles? Between the Senegal River and the Gambia River lie over 1,100 stone circles built as burial sites, sacred meeting places, and monuments of memory . Some stones are m...

Major Pierre Claver Karangwa, one of the executioners of the 100 day long Rwandan Genocide lived in the Netherlands for 26 years before his arrest​. Rwanda is the most densely populated country in mainland Africa with a population of 13 million living on 10,169 square miles of land; Rwanda is about the size of the US state of Maryland. The population is divided among ethnic lines with Hutu 85 percent, Tutsi 14 percent, and Twa 1 percent.  Major Pierre Claver Karangwa In 1959, three years before independence, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. The children of these exiles later formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front and began a civil war in 1990. The mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi population was ignited on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying the-then president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down and crashed in Kigal...