It's a taboo topic and an age-old practice across several countries and religious traditions in Africa, the Middle East and ...

"It resonates as a dream realized and not a dream hope for," said Darby Iva Pack, the founding director of the Maryland Academy of Dance. "Black dance is legacy. It's love, it's a foundation. It is ...

Fatou Fall defiantly faced the ocean and sadly laid a flower on Mbao beach near Senegal's capital Dakar in memory of her ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder ...

Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...

The footballer turned coach won 44 caps with Senegal from 2001 to 2008, playing for several European clubs before ending his career in 2012. Beye, who takes charge of training from Friday ...

The Layene brotherhood, while smaller than Senegal’s other Sufi orders such ... “It is a pride for both Black and white people because Seydina Limamou Laye is not the prophet of Black people ...