More than 180 works from African artists are featured in the show, which runs through June 29. A companion exhibit, 'Connecting Threads,' highlights African fashions created by Chicago designers and ...

Black History Month, I have put together a short list of a few multidisciplinary artists and their projects I’m keeping an ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa.

The mass-manufactured African souvenir industry and traditional handicraft sector are increasingly converging, as many tourists opt for cheap replicas of the continent’s historic heritage over ...

Lagos In Paris is a visionary West African producer and performer collective pioneering a bold new sound they define as ...

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

Mali held a conference in capital city of Bamako on Thursday in pursuit of increased cooperation with China. Themed under ...

The incendiary films of the late pioneer of African cinema do not merely critique power but discern the social and political ...

Celebrated Malian director Souleymane Cissé, who was the first sub-Saharan African director to win a major award at Cannes with 1987 Jury Prize winner Yeelen ( Brightness ), has died at the age of 84.

Malian director Souleymane Cissé, the African cinema pioneer who over five decades gained prominence for works infused with ...

In a move that might seem somewhat surprising, in his end-of-year speech for 2024, Alassane Ouattara, the President of Côte d’Ivoire and an ally of France, announced that French troops would ...