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 ...

Sonya Mann-McFarlane, Director of Imani Edutainers African Dance Company, will lead her dancers on Saturday, June 18th at the Ware Center for Juneteenth | The Calabash Concert in conjunction with ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The Star ...

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. This is a hymn to an African woman who has inspired not only African dancers but a global community of artists to ...

The rhythm will come alive Friday at Wells College, where the Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble will drum up a performance highlighting the cultural heritage of Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and ...

“They did a thing for the ancestors,” Abdel R. Salaam told Observer, “and then the rains came.” He was talking about his recent trip to visit the Baka people in the Dja Faunal Reserve, located in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. DanceAfrica, BAM's longest-running program and the nation's largest ...

In 1996, after struggling through nearly 50 years of apartheid, South Africa ratified its first modern, democratic constitution. In a passionate and historic speech on May 8 of that year, then-deputy ...

Walker joins us, along with his wife Karida Walker, who is a dancer in the troupe; and high school senior Nylah Jae Holt, who has been dancing with Sebé Kan since she was 8 years old. Note: The ...