Over 250 educators, students, and families gathered for the 36th annual Sankofa Conference to celebrate Black history and ...

Bare-knuckled and poised to punch, boys from the Venda tribe in Tshifudi, South Africa, engage in the boxing ... Valley and the climax of Shadrack’s passage to manhood—a passage crucial ...

The rites of passage promote a feeling of collective identity ... The practice of makolwane must change along with South Africa. Reforms that can address the problems of abuse, violence, and ...

After the child naming ceremony, puberty rites are the next set of rituals ... The newly initiated women are dressed scantily with very beautiful African beads and cosmetics showing off their ...

During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...

Kwa chant about the disappearance of an African boy, Equiano This African ... Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across ...

Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, internationally acclaimed American rapper and actor, popularly known as Ja Rule, has toured Ghana's National Museum to acquaint himself with the African culture ... Ghanaian ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some of the elders who attended the rite of passage ceremony at Mbale Municipality Grounds ...