For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring ...

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.

HAMPTON — Under a red sun, seagulls’ calls and the scent of burning sage wafted past foamy waves breaking on the warm Buckroe Beach sand just after dawn Friday. Occasionally echoed by music from a ...

The scent of burning copal filled the air as Aztec dancers, bedecked in feathered headdresses and wearing shell-embellished ankle cuffs, blessed an intersection bordering Little Village and North ...

A Nigerian groom honoured his South African bride’s traditions in a beautiful cross-cultural ritual that left viewers ...

Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Known as Asen, forged iron ...

an archive of more than a million images, hundreds of artefacts and field diaries, and thousands of hours of video - is looking for a home. Whirling masked spirits clad in raffia and laughing children ...

When enslaved people were shipped to Cuba from Africa, they brought their traditions with them. As a result, Cuban cuisine, music and dance are linked to the Motherland. Cubans are warm and love a ...

In a world where crisis often feels both distant and unrelenting, the search for healing is deeply intertwined with indigenous spiritual practices. These traditions, shaped by centuries of resilience ...

“The Wound” is a conscientious first feature from South African director John Trengove that is based around a male initiation ritual in the Xhosa culture called “ukwaluka,” which begins with ...