Wakandans worship a group of deities based on ancient Egyptian and African gods. The name of Wakanda itself has associations with Indigenous tribes and African ethnic groups. The Marvel Universe drew ...

Upon entering Harmonia Rosales’s show Entwined, on view now through May 1 at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A), one could easily imagine having stumbled into a gallery ...

Veteran actor Bob-Manuel Udokwu has argued that African deities are demons. He also noted the deities are powerful which is why the westerners are scampering to return them after many decades of ...

In January, the New Orleans Museum of Art opened a retrospective of globally acclaimed Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. As part of this exhibition, I worked with the artist to select a number of works ...

These supernatural beings include both gods and goddesses and they always came with interesting tales. Here are five African goddesses with quite an interesting history. Queen Modjadji or the Rain ...

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam. Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the ...

"Oya" means she tore. She also goes by the name Ọya-Ìyáńsàn-án meaning the mother of nine. Oya was barren and could only have stillborns. She gave birth to nine children but they all came out dead.

A pivotal conversation led him on a quest to understand African history and create a one-of-a-kind village for practitioners of the Yoruba religion. By Dionne Ford This article is part of Overlooked, ...

The world of "Black Panther" is rich in lore, which draws inspiration from real-life cultures. Wakandans worship a group of deities based on ancient Egyptian and African gods. The name of Wakanda ...