"Cross through the flames, huntress." You've never seen any short film like this before. The Voice in the Hollow is an animated short film created by Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma. Described as "an ...

An African fable as told by global scholar-in-residence John Dau from a book he is writing titled “Dinka Wisdom for All Ages:” A long time ago, three clans of Dinka (an African tribe) had a contest to ...

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The stories you love best are filled with excitement and power. Sometimes, they make you laugh; other times, they make you think. You like funny stories and silly ones, tales that make your eyes pop ...

Seven years ago, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni made international waves with “I Am Not a Witch,” a mysterious fable that mixed African rituals and folklore with modern-day troubles to tell the ...

Tori Sampson takes a West African fable and turns it into an all-American cartoon geared for the afterschool-special crowd. Too bad that few adolescents will be attending a play titled “If Pretty ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Come hear the djembe drums dance and the ngoni's strings sing as the griots tell ...

Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) is Mami Wata’s Intermediary, receiving the villagers’ tithe in return for divine protection. But when she can’t revive the drowned friend of her headstrong daughter Zinwe ...

Modernity is greeted with fear and trepidation, while the traditional is exquisitely captured in contempo African fable "Faro -- Goddess of the Waters." Pic reps impressive feature bow by Malian docu ...

You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the conjuring power of ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...