It’s the costume shops. It’s the playwright ... The play immerses audiences in the lives of West African hairstylists at a Harlem salon, where love, aspirations, and secrets intertwine ...

The first presentation of its kind, “New African Masquerades” offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade.

Like red beans and rice and gumbo- other West African dishes that exist as American adaptations in New Orleans- jollof is the ancestor of jambalaya (and perhaps, Spain’s paella and Trinidad’s ...

Instead of reproducing or reappropriating the Western gaze, Onobrakpeya casts Jesus as a West African savior and sets ... Pontius Pilate appears in royal costume, as a Yoruba or Ghanaian chief ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Next month, the Sebé Kan West African Dance and Music concert returns to the Newmark Theater. We sat down with the founder of the dance company to learn more about the ...

In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...