DUBAI: The World Silk Road Forum has announced the selection of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice ...

Makhosazana Xaba, an acclaimed poet and activist, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pretoria for ...

What is African about corruption and rapine? I want you to know this: I am not just asking you to be wary each time someone ...

An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

Christabelle Marbun started acting at two years old because her mother could not find a babysitter. By 12, she had been ...

The Carolinas had over 1,400 National Endowment for the Arts grants over more than a quarter century. We take a look at how the money was spent.

In West African folklore, Anansi was a charming trickster who looks ... Others use artistic expressions like songs, rap, poetry and dance to tell their stories, as their ancestors did with the Anansi ...

On 8 January, members of the violent extremist Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims attacked a fortified position of the anti-terrorist Operation Mirador in northern Benin. Media reports said ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

People from Astoria, Rochdale, St. Albans, Brooklyn, Long Island and Jamaica, West Indies ... inspired by Giovanni’s poem, which celebrates her pride in both her African heritage and womanhood.