Brooklyn's Memorial Day weekend tradition returns with performances, films, classes, visual art, and the iconic outdoor DanceAfrica Bazaar on May 22–28.

Muntu Dance Theatre is a Chicago-based West African dance company that’s beloved for its commitment to innovation, community, and culture. Their stage work centers the African and African American ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — On Wednesday, West Africa came to the studio to showcase culture through dance. Eileen and Kidd spoke to the co-founder and assistant director of the KanKouran 41st Annual ...

On June 27, 2009, Michael Jackson passed […] ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...

Bongo sensational artist Diamond Platnumz rocks the stage in Mombasa during the Wasafi Festival Concert in Mombasa. [Joackim Bwana, Standard] Hardly a year since it was released, Diamond Platnumz’s ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.

JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (Reuters) - South African musical export Amapiano has crossed borders and cultural barriers, reaching as far as Japan. To top female artists Kamo Mphela and DBN Gogo, who helped ...

Is it possible that rhythms pounded out on African drums can have a healing effect on our troubled world? After sitting in on a practice session of Ballet Manden, a West African drum, dance and ...

He decided to go back to Guinea to give back to his community by opening a school to teach others the skills he had acquired. After a couple years, his students were performing at the level of ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...