When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In his groundbreaking book, The African Origins of Our Faith: Pan-African ...

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...

The quest for an authentic spiritual heritage has led some Black Christian women down a dangerous path. By the time Day Sibley decided to embrace Ifa, a divination practice from the Yoruba people of ...

For centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as pre-scientific myth. Yet, ...

Alioune Diouf, Fabrice Monteiro, and Omar Ba utilize age-old motifs from African culture and spirituality to create contemporary artworks that tell the story of the African identity. All three artists ...