The influence of electronic sonics on Nigeria's mainstream music landscape has ramped up considerably in recent years, ...

Discover the rich cultural heritage of Ghana’s Volta Region through its traditional dances, including Agbadza, Borborbor, ...

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ekasa, a spiritually embedded dance procession, is performed to mark the end of ...

The ancient Ekasa performance yesterday, in honour of Queen Mother, Iyoba Omo N’ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, ended the first ...

The Ekasa dance, a spiritually significant procession, marks the conclusion of the first phase of her funeral rites. It is ...

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday held the ancient Ekasa dance in honour of his late mother, Iyoba Omo ...

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The Oba added that this orchestrated design was undertaken in several ways, including through the unwarranted attempt to appropriate ancient ancestral artefacts which belong to the Oba of Benin, as ...

The dance performances went on for hours each day. They included traditional ceremonial dances, such as the box drum dance performed by Wainwright and Utqiaġvik. The legend behind it describes ...

For these statesmanly acts of lawfulness, and respect for the traditional institution of the Benin people and Edo State as a whole, history will forever remember Your Excellency in glory.

Folwell is from Kha’p’o Owingeh, or Santa Clara Pueblo, in New Mexico. By taking a solid grounding in traditional techniques and adding her own innovations, including sculptural figural ...