standardmedia.co.ke

Why African huts were round and not rectangular

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The circular shape provided some primitive form of ventilation Ever wondered why ...

Great Huts marks 25 years preserving culture in Portland

Great Huts, the eco-resort on the cliffs of Boston Bay, is this year observing its 25th anniversary. The property opened in 2000 with three tents on land near the Boston Jerk Centre. Since then, it ...
Time

America’s ‘African Founders’: The Black Thinkers Who Shaped the U.S.

Historian David Hackett Fischer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington’s Crossing, has been writing history books since 1965, and his latest, African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Why African huts were round and not rectangular

Ever wondered why traditional African huts were round and not any other shape, say, oblong? At the height of the State of Emergency, the colonial government not only created ‘Emergency Villages’ in ...