This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

Djeneba Sako moved to the U.S. from Mali, West Africa, more than 20 years ago to share her passion for African dance. DENVER — If you follow the sound of drums from the unassuming corner of Bayaud ...

To celebrate the University of Maryland’s 2025 Homecoming, Juke Joint encourages students and local community members of ...

During his senior year at Atlanta’s Emory University as an African studies student, Kokayi Postell decided to study abroad in Ghana. It wasn’t long before he fell in love with the country’s rich ...

We hear of the value of asking our elders about our culture before it's too late, before they die along with their troves of historically personal facts. A dozen reviewers chose nine finalists from ...

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known as the mother of contemporary African dance, called out to them. "Walk!

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Students form a circle in the middle of the room, as loud, pounding music plays ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As crowds of students rush from one class to the next, eat in dining halls in the next building, ...

In Swahili, kukuwa means "to grow." It's the perfect name for Kukuwa Kyereboah and her company Kukuwa Fitness, which in the past few decades has sprouted from a passion project to a global business.

A Belgian dancer surprised South African pupils at a local school with his amapiano skills in a fun viral moment that ...