There's more to African masks than you might think, suggests a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" combines traditional creations with contemporary ...

Though traditional, White media may not have accurately recorded Black history, griots have been protecting and telling the stories of African people and their descendants— long before 1619.

A pair of Kimi masks (headpiece carved by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou) performing greetings with the lead griot Tchiedo playing his drum behind them, Bindougosso district, Bobo ...

While captivating to watch, this performance also actualizes the performativity of identity central to contemporary ...

Ulysses Jenkins’s “Without Your Interpretation” at a rehearsal, 1984. The video artist’s first major museum retrospective, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, asserts that Black culture ...

Peer under the hedonistic surface of African music and there are musicians all over the continent who are worthy successors to the griots, the continent's traditional storytellers, says DJ Rita Ray.

A comprehensive guide to the music and verbal artistry of West Africa's griots. "Hale's magnum opus is an invaluable reference for scholars in religious studies, history, music, anthropology ...

The 14th edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, the continent's largest contemporary art event, opened Thursday in Senegal's capital with the top prize awarded to an Ethiopian painter.

ST. LOUIS – February is Black History Month, and St. Louis is dedicated to preserving and sharing stories of African Americans who helped shape our city and nation. The Griot Museum of Black ...

It opened in 1997 with the original name, the ‘Black World History Wax Museum.’ The museum’s current name, ‘Griot,’ comes from West African culture.