One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...

Country music artist Tanner Adell opens up about her African heritage after donning blonde Bantu knots at the recent 2024 CMT Music Awards Show. On May 1, the Kentucky native sat down with MTV for an ...

Just to save others from having to look it up, the Bantu languages include Swahili and Zulu, which were the only two languages that I recognized in the list. Apparently, there are hundreds of mutually ...

Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

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THE tribes of our neighborhood in the Southern Kamerun belong to the Bantu race. If, as is supposed at this writing to be the case, the Bantu-speaking tribes occupy the southern half of Africa from ...

THERE is a vast sweep of dry bush desert lying in South-West Africa and western Bechuanaland, bordered in the north by Lake Ngami and the Okovango River, in the south by the Orange River, and in the ...

What if music could heal the wounds of the soul? This is the starting point of Healing Journey, Patricia Essong’s latest album released in January, which the singer sees as an exercise in liberation ...

Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...