Nature at the fingertips of health and (dare I say) happiness

Mboumba Marie Agnes (aka Maman Agnes) was born in 1937 in Gabon.

The young Marie Agnès showed a very early and developed a strong interest in the therapeutic effects of plants. She quickly became an excellent herbalist recognised by the Ministry of Scientific research and Health of Gabon.

Wangari Maathai, our Mother Nature
A life spent defending nature to better help humans.

Her life journey is exemplary, her determination to act for the preservation of the environment is comparable to her humility.

Wangari Maathai is one of those people that life so rarely presents us with. Yes, life seems short on those who, like Wangari Maathai, will deploy an unlimited energy and the advocacy of global concern.

The Djembe is an African drum instrument of the Mandingo people that dates back to the 12th century  when it was played in the great Mali Empire.It is undoubtedly one of the most known African instruments but also one of the most powerful drums.

It is known to be used in various rituals in particular by the griots for storytelling and by many in general for communication, for traditional healing (it is also known as the healing drum), and for traditional cermonies including rites of passage, ancestors worshipping and warrior rituals.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Britain’s Foremost Black Classical Music Composer

Hilary Burrage, January 2011

September 1^st 2012 will mark the centenary of the death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the musician widely regarded as Britain’s foremost, even greatest, Black classical composer.

Coleridge-Taylor was only 37 when he died.  His early death was a tragedy not only for music in Britain but also very immediately for his wife and his young children; and it was also a great loss for what became the civil rights movement, for Samuel had taken up that cause to some effect from his early twenties onwards.