Dr. Charles ''Chuck'' Davis founded Dance Africa in Brooklyn in 1977, thereby creating the country's first festival solely devoted to the legacy of African dance. From that modest beginning at the ...

Ghanaian spoken word artist, the maiden edition of Creative Connect Afrika, lived up to its much-anticipated excitement ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — Art can take many forms but for one dance group in Lake Worth Beach, they're teaching their members and the community all about African culture through the beat of drums and ...

Overnight, Tyla became the world’s most beloved pop star. With her Grammy award-winning breakout single “Water” being the first song by a South African soloist to enter the US Billboard Hot 100 in 55 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At King Elementary School in southwest Fresno, students have been learning about African American culture through dance. This year, 18 students at Martin Luther King ...

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows students at a legendary West African dance school. The director will be ...

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

Zangbeto: In African Voodoo culture, the Zangbeto dance is dedicated to the night watchmen, in which a tent-like structure is ...

We hear of the value of asking our elders about our culture before it's too late, before they die along with their troves of historically personal facts. A dozen reviewers chose nine finalists from ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Rae Kala is a traveler — Central America, Mexico, Santa Cruz in California, West Africa — but Port Townsend pulls her back, again and again. In the past, she helped assemble an African ...