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Washington, 10 October– Washington’s eighth annual Arabian Sights Film Festival has opened vivid insights into the human realities of the Arab world during more than a week of screenings of outstanding films from Algeria, Lebanon, […]

Washington/Geneva– A new life began for 173 children in a town called Yeji September 11. In the Brong Afafo region of Ghana, the boys, aged 3 to 14, leave a life as indentured laborers in […]

On the infamous Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, a hair-splitting inscription – ‘‘From this door for a journey without return‘‘, is engraved on the Island’s creamy stone standing on the final exit point […]

Washington– Cultural interaction is the way to encourage understanding and dialogue between Arab and Islamic peoples and the West, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Speakers at a Washington symposium on the cultural […]

Washington– More than 400 years of brutal heat, blinding sandstorms, and climatic conditions that wither most human souls and artifacts have done little to devalue the one million manuscripts found in the Mamma Haidara Library […]

In December every year since time immemorial, the chiefs and people of the Builsa Traditional Area in Ghana‘s Upper East Region celebrate their annual ‘‘Feok´´ festival at Sandema. Last December‘s durbar was both impressive and […]

Washington, 7 July– Timbuktu came to Washington for the Smithsonian’s annual Folklife Festival, which has just ended. More than 200 Malians came to DC to represent their West African country. For those who have never […]

Washington, 12 June– Nearly every form of contemporary music in America can be traced to African slaves, who transplanted the rhythms and harmonies from their native land. Through the decades, Black music has evolved from […]