In the Red and Brown Water,” by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (best known for “Moonlight”), incorporates Yoruba mythology ...

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A criminally underused villain in the form of Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher, who swears vengeance on all ... and we’re graced with one of the finest MCU villains in trickster demigod Loki. If ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

For decades, DRC, a Central African nation of more than 100 million people, has grappled with bloody militia violence, including ethnic and resource-driven armed rebellion by M23 and dozens of ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ever since European settlers began arriving nearly four centuries ago.

Celtic mythology is comprised of legends and lore from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany. Each Celtic culture has its own language and traditions, but there is some ...

Review: I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS from Mike van Graan is a real laugh by Faeron Wheeler on February 10, 2025 in South Africa As the name of the play suggests, I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS is all about ...

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The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

James Deutsch is senior content coordinator for the Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project, and a former folklore curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where ...