KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Local cultural nonprofit Rootead Enrichment Center is hosting their first-ever African Masquerade Fundraiser to fund the programs they offer. Programs at Rootead share a mission to ...

Ambassador Arthur Mbanefo (CON, MFR), the Odu of Onitsha, and once Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

Aden, J. A. (2003) ‘Anvils of blood, oaths of iron: a history of power and association in the Komo complex of the western Sudan (West Africa) from the late nineteenth century to the present’. PhD ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Frist Art Museum presents New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at ...

It’s been over a decade since Milwaukeeans gathered en masse to celebrate African culture and heritage. But, thanks to the work of three local women, the African Cultural Festival is slated to take ...