First, let’s give you a lil’ history. Black folklore, whether African or African American folklore, dates back to the 1700s.

It is perhaps fitting then, that my exploration of traditional East African folktales began here, leading me on an unexpected journey into storytelling and adapting contemporary novels.

Folktales like the one about the King Buzzard, created in America to explain the origin of African slaves, gave to these different people a common origin on the distant continent." This account comes ...

“Alkebulan: The Mother of Mankind is more than a play—it is a cultural Sankofa,” said Director and Playwright Ricardo “Ric” ...

“Anansi has been one of my favorite trickster characters for a very long time, and I’m very surprised even now how many people don’t know who Anansi is, mostly because African folklore isn ...