Carnival and Culture: Black Identity at International Festivals
Carnivals have been the heart of cultural heritage, collective celebration, and resistance for centuries. Most potent are likely international carnivals—rainbow-hued, rhythmic, and thoroughly embedded festivals testifying to African diasporic power and imagination. On distant seas and continents, Black folks have preserved and reconstituted their cultural practice in Carnival, employing music, dance, costume, and ritual as […]
Best African Festivals Worth Traveling
1. Festival au Désert (Mali) This is one of the precise music fairs discovered in Africa. The festival, held earlier inside the desolate dunes of the Sahara near Timbuktu, Mali, displays conventional Tuareg tunes to cutting-edge African and international artists. It has been a victim of relocation because of political instability within the United States […]