It’s been said that you can’t hate someone whose story you know. In Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh has woven a ...

An electric violin, a tap genius, art world legends, holograms and more will feature in dance shows to see in Washington and ...

Costume designer Marina Toybina has pulled off one of the biggest jobs of her career – putting together the costumes for ...

During the past decade, nearly 20,000 visitors have explored the History of West Museum, including people from China, Japan, ...

Check out modern dress styles in Ghana. The article shares images of some of the latest Kente, Ankara, Smock, Agbada, and ...

DANBURY — Highlighted behind the glass of Huntington Hall’s exhibit cases is a collection of costumes worn by local ... She was recognized as the first African American to perform with the ...

Air travel within West Africa remains the most expensive globally, posing a major challenge to regional integration, according to the Economic Community of West African States. This was disclosed ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

Young West African ‘catfish’ scammers have turned cyber-fraud into a cornerstone of transnational crime by recycling age-old scams for the social media age. We investigate. “I can go three days ...

Unlike many parts of Central and West Africa, deforestation poses less of a threat to the rainforest of Bioko. But the thriving wild meat trade, which includes the endemic primates, has ...

ATHENS, - West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional ...

His work has also appeared in numerous films like “The Color Purple,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and “West Side ... in 2018 first African American to win an Oscar in costume design ...