As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are beckoned upon by ...

Volta Gur ethno-linguistic group. Here is more about their history, food, dance, languages, and weapons.

As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the ...

In the ancient town of Ouidah, located in southern Benin, the annual Voodoo Festival unfolds with a vibrant mix of dance, ...

“It basically shows … an infiltration and expansion of JNIM into Benin,” Bruijne added. The attack also raised further concerns about joint security efforts in West Africa, whose regional ...

Shakespeare’s Ancient Pistol cries, — A foutre for the world, and worldlings base! I speak of Africa, and golden joys. He echoes a legend of gold from the days of Punt and ...

As memorials to the slave trade become tourist destinations across West Africa, painful reminders of its brutality are easily accessible. From Ghana to Senegal to Benin, one can visit variations ...

Their family relocated to Ghana from Florida and have obtained Ghanaian citizenship. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu) African books sit on the bookshelf at the Keachia Bowers and Damon Smith’s family home in ...

As 2025 dawns, African nations are looking out onto an uncertain global political landscape. Russia's grinding war in Ukraine still has no end in sight, the United States is about to swear in an ...

Acoustic research at a rock art site suggests not. The study site, Kurukop, is in South Africa's Northern Cape province, in the Nama Karoo region, where the geological formation began to ...