Diaspora
Diaspora religions preserved African spiritual traditions through migration and slavery. Research on syncretism, adaptation, and heritage survival.
Black Folklore: How West African Stories Traveled and Survived
In one Akan telling recorded in the 1930s, the storyteller opens by taking it all back: We do not really mean, we do not really mean, that what we are about to say is true.
African Mythology in Fiction: Why the New Wave Isn't New
In 1938, a schoolteacher in western Nigeria published a novel in Yoruba about a hunter who walks into a forest thick with spirits and does not come home the same man.
Magical Realism and Jungian Archetypes in African Storytelling
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world.
Orisha, Mami Wata, and the Fantasy Novel Review Rule
A reader meets Èṣù on page forty. He is standing at a crossroads, which is where he usually stands, and the book does not stop to explain him.
Vodou Spirituality and Practice vs. the Hollywood Zombie
In parts of rural Haiti, a family will sit with a fresh grave for a few nights before they leave it alone. The fear behind that vigil is not the one Hollywood sells.
Children of Blood and Bone: What a Film Adaptation Can Carry
Ask a babaláwo how many òrìṣà (or-EE-shah) there are and you may get a number, then a correction, then a pause that means that is not really the question.