Sundiata: An Epic African Folktale is a multimedia production of African history that will utilize dance, music, theater, video, and visual art to bring this timeless historical account to life. The ...

Deondra Kamau Means leads a group of kids through a song. They're practicing for a production of "The Eagles Who Thought They Were Chickens," an old African folktale. “Places, places from the top!” ...

Every gardener knows: critters can be your worst enemy when trying to grow food. But most wouldn’t expect a snake to be a part of the problem. That conflict between gardener and animal is at the heart ...

Bright Star Touring Theatre must rely on small, portable, spartan sets for its sometimes big life-education messages. “We have to be able to fit into any facility that will have us,” said Lucy O’Brien ...

This manuscript bibliography, created at the National Museum of African Art Branch, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, is for the use of teachers who want a list of books of African folktales suitable ...

The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department presents a children’s theater performance by Bright Star Touring Theatre in recognition of Black History Month, 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, at ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sundance competition title Mami Wata, the third feature film from Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi. Based on West African mermaid ...

Once Oh Beah, the eldest of the slaves, dons her stern griot stare and raises her healing herbs in offering to the four points, it's our surest sign that the African American folktales we're about to ...

Obi Nwazota has left his mark on Chicago: He’s an architect and owner of the design firm Orange Skin; he once owned a Wicker Park clothing store and a Nigerian restaurant in Rogers Park. His next ...