For many African women, wearing beads is a way of life and a culture passed on to them from their mothers. They grow up to find them on their waists even before they begin to question its significance ...

It was made in the prehistoric period, an ancient bead 15cm long, tubular and consisting of black-and-white agate and orange carnelian rock. It was broken in two and buried, separately, with two ...

From the Roman empress Cleopatra to the celebrated actress Audrey Hepburn, beaded jewellery has always maintained its unvarying desirability. Anybody scavenging ancient history books would find that ...

As a matter of fact, waist beads are very powerful ‘instrument’ on the woman. They are common among the Krobos in the Eastern Regional part of Ghana. Some ladies choose to wear them in multiples; ...