From the sand-covered road that loops around Dakar’s Cap Vert peninsula, Elimane Dieng’s surf shack looks like it was abandoned long ago. But Dieng sits inside on a white plastic chair surrounded by ...
Jewish filmmaker Laurence Gavron, who made history in her adopted homeland by becoming the first naturalized Sengalese to run for parliament, focuses her lens on Africans who say they descended from ...
The residents in this village, all Muslims, are members of a tribe whose name means “sons of Israel,” and they trace their lineage to two clans — Sylla and Drame — they say are descended from Egyptian ...
He will welcome you into his earthen-floor home, introduce you to his three wives, and let you sample their cooking. But Dougoutigo Fadiga does not want foreigners to come near the sacred tree of his ...
FILE - In this Dec.11, 2013 file photo, Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow gestures while being enthroned at France's Academy of Fine Arts, in Paris. Sow, whose work celebrated African tribes along with ...
New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, was sued Monday in Seminole County by a woman who says she was raped repeatedly from age 8 while she lived in a ...