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Body scarification or body modification was an integral part of African culture that helped distinguish one person from the other in ancient Africa and is still a part of many African cultures in modern times. For the ancient African, names were not enough identification. For them, body scarification served a …

Did the Little Ice Age cause the “General Crisis”? La Pendaison (The Hanging) from a series of etchings by French artist Jacques Callot (1592-1635) known as “The Great Miseries of War” that documented the Thirty Years’ War. Image credit: Public Domain The Black Death of the 1300s would have been …

The Asantehene, Otumfour Osei Tutu II, says it was disheartening to see Ghana exporting raw Cocoa beans to the international market in the 21st century without adding value to them. According to him, farmers, players in the Agricultural value chain and the country’s economy gains very little from exporting raw …