Veteran actor Bob-Manuel Udokwu has argued that African deities are demons. He also noted the deities are powerful which is why the westerners are scampering to return them after many decades of ...

In January, the New Orleans Museum of Art opened a retrospective of globally acclaimed Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. As part of this exhibition, I worked with the artist to select a number of works ...

Marisol Blanco performs in the traditional Afro-Cuban dress inspired by Yemayá, an African mother deity of the seas." For the last 12 years, Marisol Blanco has been fighting against numbers.

I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an ...

Water, as a life-sustaining force and a mighty destroyer, has fascinated humans since the beginning of time, as they migrated through fertile river valleys, settling near rivers and oceans. Rock ...

The African religious imagination already anticipates Christ. It’s ironic that as I crossed the Walt Whitman Bridge to attend an urban apologetics conference in Philadelphia I encountered the very ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Religion in Africa was founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken over by Adrian Hastings, ...

(RNS) — African elements give life to many churches, but outside of a Christian context, they are described as pagan and harmful. (RNS) — There are two moments in recent history to which I’d like to ...

Note: This episode originally aired on September 28, 2012. What does an ancient African deity have to do with a Reese's peanut butter cup? Take a trippy, intimate and lyrical journey to meet Elegba, ...