Paul Carter Harrison, Whose Ideas Shaped Black Theater, Dies at 85 In his essays and plays, he provided a framework that linked playwrights like August Wilson to African rituals and mythologies.

A queer African-centric retreat is coming to California's central coast area later this month. The Rainbow Serpent retreat, titled "Harnessing the Power of Creation through African Ritual," will be ...

The scent of burning copal filled the air as Aztec dancers, bedecked in feathered headdresses and wearing shell-embellished ankle cuffs, blessed an intersection bordering Little Village and North L… ...

Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the ...

Their stunning new two-volume book set, “ African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent ” (Rizzoli), captures these vivid and fleeting rites.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The bellowing of a bull before a ritual slaughter is a joyous sign to many South Africans that their ancestors have accepted the animal’s sacrifice. But to others ...