The Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” attracts millions of people worldwide to honor the lives of ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Whirling masked spirits clad in raffia and laughing children daubed with clay dance across the pages of "African Twilight", the latest book by two photographers documenting rapidly ...
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 ...
African Beauty has come to western shelves and helped me connect to my culture. Here are the brands making an impact. Like many Black Americans of African descent, I grew up removed from my heritage.
Foreword -- African religions -- Vodun -- For the Bamileke, death does not exist -- The Hogon foregoes physical contact -- Blue, the color of ritual death -- Sexual intercourse as mystical expression ...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The bellowing of a bull before a ritual slaughter is a joyous sign to many South Africans that their ancestors have accepted the animal’s sacrifice. But to others, it is ...
(RNS) — The pastor of the online Proverbial Experience mixes African spiritual practices with Christianity for worship 'that is fully integrated with who I am.' (RNS) — It’s 11:11 on a recent Sunday ...