“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” offers a close look at contemporary West African masquerade focusing on artists from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Sierra ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

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-Dioulasso, ...

The Frist Art Museum will present New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at contemporary West African masquerade. Organized ...

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“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, ...

Delou Africa is a non-profit organization that provides the most authentic African dance and musical performances in South Florida. This year marks 35 years of the organization displaying and teaching ...

The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

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