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 ...