Want to get a good workout in while also healing your ancestral trauma? It’s not usually something you can do at the same time, but thanks to professional artist Nzingah Oniwosan, you definitely can.

In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...

The Baltimore, Md.-based Nazu African Dance Company will offer traditional and contemporary forms of West African dance and drumming on Saturday, Feb. 23, at SUNY Cortland. The dance and drumming ...

RHYTHM: Get ready to be wowed! The KanKouran West African Dance Company returns for their annual performance in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at Dance Place (3225 8th St. N.E.). For more than 25 ...

What types of dances do you teach at the Bi-Okoto Center? Primarily we focus on traditional West African dance. We sometimes have students who want to try dances from other regions in East or South ...

He decided to go back to Guinea to give back to his community by opening a school to teach others the skills he had acquired. After a couple years, his students were performing at the level of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — 8News is honoring Black History Month this February and reporter Sierra Krug took us center stage to meet the dancers with Virginia’s premiere West African dance group — Ezibu ...

The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era in the music of west Africa.He was a charismatic performer and bandleader, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Increasing U.S. travel restrictions for citizens from several African nations could affect a dance performance scheduled next ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...