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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has officially launched a strategic initiative to commercialize the state’s profound cultural heritage, signaling a definitive pivot toward tourism as a primary engine for economic growth and internal revenue generation. Speaking at the high-profile installation ceremony of Professor Adewale Oladipo as the Sooko Molodo of the Ogbooru ruling house in…

When Raven Vaughn boarded a plane bound for southern Africa earlier this summer, she expected to learn about another part of the world. She didn’t expect the trip to change the way she viewed education, community and even life itself.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recently voted to grant World Heritage status to two of the most improbable architectural achievements in the history of Latin America, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, built in 1896, and the Theatro da Paz in BelΓ©m, built in 1878, both constructed in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon using European styles…