Umteyo is a traditional South African Xhosa dance noted for its rhythmic hip movements. Usually performed during ...

During his senior year at Atlanta’s Emory University as an African studies student, Kokayi Postell decided to study abroad in Ghana. It wasn’t long before he fell in love with the country’s rich ...

Umteyo is a traditional dance of the Xhosa people of South Africa. It is characterized by rapid hip movements and graceful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billboard spoke with September’s African Rookie of the Month about recording “Isaka (6am),” manifesting a collaboration with Omah Lay before he and Tems hopped on “Isaka II,” and Jimmy Iovine being an ...

Tresor reflects on a decade of award-winning African pop, his groundbreaking collaborations with Drake and Hugh Masekela and ...

In Swahili, kukuwa means "to grow." It's the perfect name for Kukuwa Kyereboah and her company Kukuwa Fitness, which in the past few decades has sprouted from a passion project to a global business.

Every gardener knows: critters can be your worst enemy when trying to grow food. But most wouldn’t expect a snake to be a part of the problem. That conflict between gardener and animal is at the heart ...

Stafford Berry Jr., director of Indiana University's African American Dance Company, was recently honored in the first group of artisans and folk-artisans given the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. We ...