Nearly all samba schools celebrate Brazil’s African heritage in one way or another. Mangueira used its parade to praise Bantu ...

Kenya is a land of great diversity in its people and culture. It has about 42 tribes divided into three main language groups: Bantu-speaking, Nilotic-speaking, and Cushitic-speaking tribes.

The South African cellist follows up his debut album Where is Home with a vibrant new release spanning African musical ...

There is evidence that the Bantu ancestors of the modern Swahili peoples mastered sailing technology and possessed canoes and boats so they could make their way along the Zambezi river.

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...

The National Youth Orchestra of Germany and BANTU lit up J. Randle Centre with a thrilling Afrobeat-classical performance on ...

It is an important manifestation of the ng'oma, a healing tradition found throughout Bantu-speaking Africa. Ng'oma, meaning “drums of affliction”, carries considerable historical depth and, despite ...

On his second album, Selaocoe plays many of his own compositions, some of them rooted in African tradition, others drawing from the baroque repertoire that he’s felt drawn to since he was a child.