I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which probably ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This photograph was taken by Dr. Simon Ottenberg while conducting field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara ...

Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone unless the mother's life is at risk, pushing many women to drastic and dangerous lengths to terminate a pregnancy. A bill to decriminalise abortion, introduced in ...

LOS ANGELES, CA — It started with a spark—a group of UCLA students, a passion for Bhangra, and a belief that Punjabi culture deserved the biggest stage possible. Twenty-five years later, that spark ...

The Multi-country Office (MCO) Senegal is based in Dakar. It is responsible for operations in Sierra Leone, Benin, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Togo, The Gambia, Cabo Verde, and Senegal. There are National ...

People take part in New Year's celebrations in New York City's Times Square, where thousands of people have been celebrating ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, since July under the artistic direction of Alicia Graf Mack, alongside Matthew Rushing as associate artistic director, has programmed an ambitious array of new ...

Mathura saints protested Sunny Leone’s planned New Year DJ event, citing Braj Bhoomi’s sacred status. Organisers canceled the show after local seers warned it would hurt religious sentiments. Amitabh ...

Winter in New York City can be cold and bleak, but thankfully, it’s also full of opportunities to sit in warm theaters with like-minded people and experience some beautiful dance performances. Here ...

On a chilly Friday night in early October, a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd thronged around the stage at Lucinda’s in Manhattan’s East Village. It was the bar’s weekly “countryoke” show: A four-piece band ...

Adorned in feathers, draped in hides and bathed in sunlight, the Pueblo Dance Group stamped and twirled in the courtyard of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. The dancers — from Laguna, ...