Books on Vodun, a West African spiritual tradition honoring deities and ancestors, are now the top choice among readers in ...

The religion known for causing harm by sticking pins into dolls is European Witchcraft. (Forfeit: Voodoo) - Tangent: In West Africa Vodun, dolls known as "Bocios" have small pegs stuck into them to ...

James Weldon Johnson, president of the NAACP, said in 1925 that he believed “the [African American’s] advantages ... of Jamaican culture and Haitian vodun. All of these women articulated ...

particularly in the context of popular music and new African diasporas in Europe and North America. My first book, Transforming Vodun: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass ...

In this week's Across Africa: Tech innovators tailoring artificial intelligence to the continent's context head to Paris for a global summit on the tech's next steps. A parallel event spotlights ...

A contentious law that allows South Africa’s government to expropriate land – without compensation in some cases – has enraged the United States, triggering aid cuts by Washington and ...

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A South African imam who devoted his life to promoting gay rights and tolerance for L.G.B.T.Q. Muslims was shot and killed in the coastal city of Gqeberha on Saturday ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...

WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG, March 7 Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is stopping all federal funding to South Africa, but South Africa responded by saying it ...