BeingAfrican is a platform that strives to preserve African cultures, traditions, and languages. It is a meeting place where African cultures are explained within scope.
In recent decades, the emergence of large African diaspora communities within Africa itself, Europe, America, and elsewhere has resulted in the loss of traditional knowledge of African cultures. At the same time, the westernization of African countries has posed the same at home. Our platform is an attempt to preserve many of our centuries-old customs and traditions.
At BeingAfrican we understand that preservation of culture and protocols is everyone’s responsibility (parents and children) but mainly it lies with the elders.
- Learn about you, your people, and why you should be proudly Mosotho
- Know who you married-cross cultural marriages
- Understand the people of the country you intend to visit-Hello tourists!
- Learn the language-Basic language exposure. Say something in Sesotho…
- Share your rich Mosotho culture and language
Be present in appreciating the Mosotho in you and Basotho around you. Understand Basotho marriage practices, clans and totems, pregnancy traditions, manners and protocols, dining and hosting, music, art and dance, death and funerals.
As a Mosotho, you have a culture, and you have a language!
LESOTHO AT A GLANCE
Independence: 4 October 1966
Population: 2 million
Area: 30 000 square kilometres
Language: Sesotho
Ethnic groups: Basotho
Where is Lesotho on the continent of Africa?
Lesotho is an enclaved country surrounded entirely by South Africa.