National Troupe of Nigeria has started a programme tagged reimagining National Troupe of Nigeria through innovation. The idea is to establish culture in virtual reality which will also produce ...

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 ...

Emmanuel Adejumo who goes by the stage name Boi Sala is the son of one of Nigeria’s most popular and celebrated comedians Baba Sala. Emmanuel is also an artiste like his father. As a multi-talented ...

Moving to the beat of a drum ensemble, Robin Getter sways and flows in traditional African dances with her dance troupe every Tuesday at Our Lady of the Lake University's International Folk Culture ...

Ann-Marie Shapiro is sweating and catching her breath as she sits to put on her shoes in the great room at the Channing-Murray Foundation. She looks physically spent but elated. The 41-year-old ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. s segun akande Follow It’s hard to question why a nation of 160 million people would churn ...

So great was the impulse to dance to the traditional drumming of two West African musicians, the audience in the University Center at the University of Montana on Monday got up and did exactly that.

Since it was uploaded to Instagram in June, the video of Nigerian ballet dancer Anthony Mmesoma Madu dancing in the rain has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when our ...

Sep. 4—Students from the Wade Center in Bluefield had an opportunity Tuesday to learn about West African Djembe Rhythms. Adama Dembele, master Djembefola (dejembe player) from the Ivory Coast, who now ...

PEOPLE DRIVING PAST THE African burial ground at Broadway and Reade St. last Sunday couldn’t help but pause and look. At the edge of the excavation site, men and women, in traditional African dress, ...