30 of Africa’s most amazing places to visit by CNN Travel Staff

With its expansive landscapes and formidable animal life, the world's second-biggest continent is arguably the best for photographers. Throw in that sense of being in a place that hasn't changed for centuries, and sometimes millennia, and you get some of the most inspiring, and inspired, destinations on the planet. Here are 30 of the most …

The Benin Bronzes, the British Museum, and the Benin Massacre Podcast by Barnaby Phillips and Max Siollun

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YVwHHQPtbf5XJhzy6IcZW?si=RfBXaInCRleyc1NGmMIviA Historical Context: The Benin Kingdom and the 1897 Events The Kingdom of Benin flourished for centuries (roughly 13th–19th centuries) as a major power in the region, with a highly organized court, guilds of artisans, and a thriving trade network. Its art—particularly the bronzes—served not just as decoration but as historical records, religious objects, and …

Pity John Barron by Lawson Akhigbe

The more one reads about “John Barron”—the pseudonymous voice once used by Donald Trump—the more one is inclined, not toward anger alone, but toward a peculiar kind of pity. It is the sort of pity reserved for a man so consumed by self-mythology that he must invent his own chorus of praise. Yet even that …

Nature

Have you ever been camping? Camping is living in nature, out in the open, no creature comforts, living out with the elements. And then returning to earthly comforts of electricity, bedding and indoor plumbing. Camping is an optional, occasional escape for some folks and for me it’s called living in real time. It’s not called …

Operating Systems Don’t Run Themselves: A Tale of Two Democracies by Lawson Akhigbe

Somewhere in a quiet policy paper, probably written in a room with good air conditioning and zero Nigerian electricity experience, a very confident sentence was born: “A well-crafted constitution is an operating system for national behavior.” Beautiful. Elegant. Almost poetic. There’s just one small problem. The real world—particularly places like United States and Nigeria—has decided …