Football fans in Lomé witnessed unusual scenes during the CAF Confederation Cup tie between Gbohloe-Su of Togo and Burkina Faso’s USFA. Before kickoff, mysterious substances were seen placed around ...

In today’s world, a DNA swab and lab analysis can settle paternity questions in a few days. But before modern science reached Africa’s villages, communities relied on older, more spiritual and ...

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.

BALTIMORE -- The Rev. Maurice Blackwell was beloved by many of Baltimore's black Catholics for infusing the religion with African-American rituals, such as hanging kente cloths and having couples ...

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has called for stronger collaboration among African nations to combat human trafficking, ritual abuse and exploitation. Sanwo-Olu made the call at the opening of ...