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.