We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In South Africa in 1856, the spirits of three ancestors visited a 15-year-old Xhosa girl called ...

Cargo cults were fascinating social phenomena that ... of some islands on which there lived primitive aboriginal tribes. The Americans built air fields used for military and logistic purposes.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In South Africa in 1856, the spirits of three ancestors visited a 15-year-old Xhosa girl called Nongqawuse.

The Polynesian cargo cults were newly discovered South Pacific tribes who were so awed by airplanes, and the Western food that arrived in said aircraft, that they built life-sized model airplanes ...

One of the world's last surviving cargo cults is celebrating its official 50th anniversary on Tanna island in Vanuatu. The John Frum Movement worships a mysterious spirit that urged them to reject the ...