Black Panther remains to be one of the most iconic films to have ever been made. The movie showed the world the beauty of Africa, and Chadwick Boseman‘s talent shone through the screens. Black ...

Featuring legendary creatures, mainly from West and Central Africa, Skin of the Sea is also filled with gods and goddesses presented as mermaids. Bowen intended to stay true to the land and time ...

“Moon Witch, Spider King” is an impressive amalgamation of folklore, magic, and mythology that weaves together several narratives, but the element that makes it memorable is James’s prose ...

The film is, among other things, a celebration of African womanhood — and sisterhood — a fact that owes in part to the director’s two late sisters, to whom “Mami Wata” is dedicated.

The Hero With an African Face contains two African hero myths that are brought to musical life by Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet. The story behind the album’s title track, Keepers of the Flame, is a ...

Okupe incorporates African myth and history into his books –- his "YouNeek YouNiverse." Here he weighs in on creating Afrocentric comics for a global audience — and on his new book WindMaker ...

THE JAPANESE MYTHS: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits, by Joshua Frydman. (Thames & Hudson, $24.95.) A professor of Japanese literature ushers readers through the country’s mythology from the ...

The director of the first homegrown Nigerian feature to compete at Sundance talks about using genre can force audiences to rethink African cinema. C.J. Obasi on African Myths, Genre Twists and ...