The Haven Night Shelter will stage the "Dignity in Motion" show next week For a few hours a day, the space under the Nelson Mandela Boulevard overpass in District Six is transformed into a dance floor ...

When Lamine Sonko arrived in Australia 20 years ago, audiences didn't understand his work. Now he is sharing the rituals and rhythms of Senegal with a willing crowd.

It's October, which means while many people around the globe are trying to decide what costume to wear for Halloween, we were busy trying to decide which showcases to see at the 31st edition of the ...

The northern lion dance is more acrobatic and realistic, with the performers balancing on balls and seesaws, while the southern style is more stylized, marked by powerful movements and lion behavior ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of the story mentioned an Oct. 17 performance by Ailey II at the Warner Theatre in Torrington. That performance has been canceled. Ailey II is a national treasure, ...

A lion dance troupe formed by students from the Confucius Institute, University of Nairobi, on March 12. WANG YUXI/CHINA DAILY Around May 2022, Anthony Kahuro, a kung fu teacher at the Confucius ...

African music, dance and storytelling are coming to Leicester this October as part of Black History Month celebrations. Swahili, Congolese, Moroccan, Ethiopian and Eritrean performers will take over ...

African leaders attending the UN General Assembly are advocating for a greater global role for the continent, Security Council reforms and Palestinian statehood. Many African leaders attending the UN ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows students at a legendary West African dance school. The director will be ...

If you’ve gone on an African safari, chances are you’ve heard of the Big Five, the must-see list of iconic megafauna. The term, coined in the late 1800s during Africa’s colonial period, refers to what ...

Houston dancer, educator, and author Stacey Allen joins Houston Matters to discuss her new children’s book, “D is for Dance,” a joyful, illustrated celebration of movement inspired by the African ...