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History Street
Documenting and exploring history
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Yewande Ade
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History Street
Mar 25, 2021
The Sharo Festival: Get Flogged Before You Can Get a Wife
A test of manliness and endurance
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Yewande Ade
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Jun 10, 2021
A Tribe’s Fattening Room Culture and How It Affects the Women Involved
A marriage rite that involves…
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Yewande Ade
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Jul 10, 2021
African Male Slaves Experienced Untold Hardship During the Slave Trade Era
It was beyond despicable
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Jul 13, 2021
Tribal Marks: The Struggle between Tradition and Abuse
And the various reasons why it should be…
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Sep 15, 2021
A Sexual Cleansing Custom That Endangers The Lives of Young Girls
A Tale of sexual abuse and…
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Yewande Ade
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Oct 14, 2021
The Bizarre Lip Plate Tradition
An extreme cultural practice that has its own beauty standards for…
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Yewande Ade
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Oct 19, 2021
The Woman Who Was Hypersexualized For The Sake Of Entertainment
The Legacy of Sarah Saartjie Baartman
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Yewande Ade
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Oct 25, 2021
The Dance Tradition That Allows Women Pick Their Prospective Husbands
Meet the men who wear makeup so…
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Yewande Ade
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History Street
Nov 24, 2021
A Renowned Gynaecologist Subjected Enslaved Black Women To Harsh Scientific Experiments
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Yewande Ade
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History Street
Nov 29, 2021
The Bizarre History Of People Reshaping Their Heads
Skull elongation was an unusual practice
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