When most people think of African dance they imagine celebratory, picture-postcard ritualized movements—swooping arms, undulant shoulders, thundering foot-stamps. But there's a revolutionary cadre of ...

Introduction: ritual journeys, dancing histories, enacting bodies, and spirits / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of ...

Baba Chuck Davis had a way of standing out in a crowd. A mountain of a man who stood six feet six inches tall, he had no choice. But Davis’s stage presence, somehow, was even larger than his frame.

When enslaved people were shipped to Cuba from Africa, they brought their traditions with them. As a result, Cuban cuisine, music and dance are linked to the Motherland. Cubans are warm and love a ...

In the PBS documentary series “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows how African Americans introduced new rhythms, music and dance to Christianity ...

Roadblock, one of the fastest-rising rave movements in Africa and the defining force of Detty December nightlife, has ...

A queer African-centric retreat is coming to California's central coast area later this month. The Rainbow Serpent retreat, titled "Harnessing the Power of Creation through African Ritual," will be ...

A mating ritual in Northern Sudan is hotter than the Sahara but not for everyone to see. It has no official name, only a few simple rules apply, and, like all matters of the heart and the loins, the ...