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‘I feel lonely being an only child’

Twenty-three-year-old Wang Yu, an automobile salesman, poses for a photograph with his 19-year-old wife at the Shaolin Temple, a Buddhist temple in De

Gidan Makama: Kano’s 500-Year-Old Palace-Turned-Museum

A Makama in those days of kingship in Kano is a personal assistant to the king but in today’s Emirate Council he is a District Head and king mak

Fried grasshoppers now compete with beef in Borno

Grasshoppers are now very popular as a delicacy, quickly displacing beef which is  becoming scarce in parts of Borno Even as Boko Haram insurgent

Shanghai: Three days around the ‘City in the sea’

“This used to be the tallest building in the 90s but now it is one of the shortest in Shanghai,” Ariel Wang said, as she pointed in the di

Igogo: When the Oba plaits his hair and men wear wigs

The Oba emerges with  plaited hair  and the  men  and chiefs of Owo wear finery, wigs, braids and beads. The Igogo  festival