When 164 countries backed Correct the Map at the United Nations, Togo was the country presenting the resolution on behalf of the African Group. Its role makes more sense once you look at how this small, rarely discussed West African state has spent years building influence around Pan-Africanism, the diaspora and African representation.

We tend to overlook the stories closest to us because familiarity makes them feel unremarkable, yet this is often where great stories begin. The things we live with every day can become the stories someone else recognises themselves in, learns from, or is grateful were recorded at all.

For many Kenyans, ancestral land is understood as something inherited from the past. But what happens when there is no family land to return to? The plot bought today for a home, a garden or simply somewhere to put down roots could become the place future generations call home.

European museums call it partnership, yet African countries are still offered loans for heritage taken during war and colonial occupation. Through Asante gold, Ethiopia’s sacred Tabots and the Bangwa Queen, this article examines what restitution really requires.

Vanilla may be one of perfumery’s most familiar notes, but its cultivation across the Indian Ocean owes much to Edmond Albius, an enslaved twelve-year-old on Réunion whose hand-pollination technique remains central to natural vanilla production today.

For a long time, modern African ambition has looked like concrete, glass and air conditioning. But across the continent, a different architectural conversation is taking shape — one rooted in soil, shade, climate, memory and buildings that know where they are.