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Administration and staff of the Natural Cultural Foundation (NCF) paid tribute today to former colleague, theatre arts professional Kofi Akobi. A post on the NCF's Facebook page said they were “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former colleague, Kofi Akobi”, who was dedicated to his duties as a theatre practitioner and administrator. Akobi was a former reporter with the Barbados Rediffusion Group before joining the NCF in …
Photographer Beth Moon has travelled the world to photograph ancient trees—including the baobab trees of Africa.
Constructed around a baobab tree in Dakar, the Senegalese architect will utilize traditional West African materials for the new, high-tech building.
Adaobi Nwaubani. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, journalist, and essayist. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, she is the first contemporary African writer to launch a global career while fully domiciled in her home country. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), a 2010 Betty Trask First Book award, was a finalist for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her debut Young Adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, based on dozens...
Most plants possess a genetically circumscribed life span, but many trees barely seem to age at all Photos by Beth Moon Yucca brevifolia • Mojave Desert, United States Because Joshua trees don't have rings, it's difficult to pinpoint their age. Instead, age is estimated by size. The average life span is 150 years, but one yucca (they're technically not trees) in Joshua Tree National Park is believed to be over 1,000 years old. Joshua tree • Yucca brevifolia • Mojave Desert, United States Because Joshua trees don't have rings, it's difficult to pinpoint their age. Instead, age is estima...