Emmanuel Adejumo who goes by the stage name Boi Sala is the son of one of Nigeria’s most popular and celebrated comedians Baba Sala. Emmanuel is also an artiste like his father. As a multi-talented ...

Even if you’ve never heard of it, you won’t soon forget it once you’ve seen it. The Kimmel Cultural Campus is presenting this culturally-rich, history-based performance of the unforgettable dance ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. s segun akande Follow It’s hard to question why a nation of 160 million people would churn ...

African exercises have long been known for their holistic approach to fitness, focusing on flexibility and strength ...

Ann-Marie Shapiro is sweating and catching her breath as she sits to put on her shoes in the great room at the Channing-Murray Foundation. She looks physically spent but elated. The 41-year-old ...

Guggenheim Award-winning dance scholar and choreographer Dr. Kariamu Welsh, the creator of the African dance technique Umfundalai, will join Drexel University for a discussion and demonstration on ...

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 ...

Dance Speaks' a documentary centered around six professional dancers in six different genres of dance has heightened the layman's appreciation of the art of dance.

The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

Since it was uploaded to Instagram in June, the video of Nigerian ballet dancer Anthony Mmesoma Madu dancing in the rain has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when our ...

Sep. 4—Students from the Wade Center in Bluefield had an opportunity Tuesday to learn about West African Djembe Rhythms. Adama Dembele, master Djembefola (dejembe player) from the Ivory Coast, who now ...

So great was the impulse to dance to the traditional drumming of two West African musicians, the audience in the University Center at the University of Montana on Monday got up and did exactly that.