On Tanzania’s Lake Victoria’s Ukerewe Island, widowhood is not merely about loss—it is a passage that demands rituals to ...

On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from April 4 through August 10, the exhibition will then embark on parallel tours to venues in North America and Africa.

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The coercion of widows into participating in unwanted rituals contradicts the African philosophy of Ubuntu which emphasises ...

When Mellen Mogaka was invited to attend the burial of her estranged husband in Nyabisimba village, Nyamira County, she had no idea what lay in store for her.