The Yoruba Youth Council (YYC) has urged agitators to embrace dialogue and lawful engagement rather than actions capable of ...

In a brilliant cross-cultural gesture, the Punjab Di Virasat Cultural Troupe of Canada took the stage, blending South Asian ...

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Asake performs “Lonely at the Top,” “Amapiano,” “Awodi,” and more in his NPR Tiny Desk debut.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti didn't make music. He declared war — total, beautifully orchestrated war — against hypocrisy, tyranny, and that peculiarly African affliction of nodding politely whilst the emperor ...

The telegraph without wire -- An extension of mouth : how the bàtá talks -- Other voices : the Omele Méta and the Ìyáàlù Dùndún -- Speaking in codes : Enà Bàtá -- Epilogue: Bàtá is the mouthpiece of ...

I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.

When such a man says he is heading to the front lines, his relations have every reason ...

Lagos celebrates Fela Kuti with a vibrant week of music, art, and pan-African spirit at the New Afrika Shrine.

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