Baobab, presented by Motus and SÔ Company, will perform at the New Victory Theater from March 11 through March 19. Celebrating the age-old West African tradition of passing knowledge down from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven years ago, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni made international waves with “I Am Not a Witch,” a mysterious fable that ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tori Sampson takes a West African fable and turns it into an all-American cartoon geared for the afterschool-special crowd. Too ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...

You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the conjuring power of ...

Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) is Mami Wata’s Intermediary, receiving the villagers’ tithe in return for divine protection. But when she can’t revive the drowned friend of her headstrong daughter Zinwe ...

The stories you love best are filled with excitement and power. Sometimes, they make you laugh; other times, they make you think. You like funny stories and silly ones, tales that make your eyes pop ...

Presents traditional African fables and folk tales which illustrate the advantages of wisdom over strength. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the conjuring power of ...