Around May 2022, Anthony Kahuro, a kung fu teacher at the Confucius Institute at Kenya's University of Nairobi, approached Wang Shangxue, who had just joined the institute as director, to discuss the ...

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known as the mother of contemporary African dance, called out to them. "Walk!

Dance, in African culture, transcends the physical response of the body to music – it is more than mere motion, as in the movement of limbs in concert with sound. It is more than the feet answering ...

In the famed Malian city of Timbuktu, it's time for the yearly replastering of Djinguereber Mosque which dates back to the ...

This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

In the nearly four centuries of the slave trade, the eviction of over 12 million men, women, and children from their homes on the African continent in chains and enslavement represents a cruel and ...

Three new categories have been added ahead of the 2024 Grammy Awards: best African music performance, best alternative jazz album and best pop dance recording. Additionally, producer of the year, ...