In 1996, two musicians from the African nation of Mali were expected to arrive in Havana for a recording session that never happened. The relatively unknown Malians were scheduled to work on an ...

Surprise is the one reaction you don’t anticipate from an Eliades Ochoa album. Admiration, yes. But you don’t expect the unexpected. If anything the master of the Cuban country son usually errs on the ...

Marisol Blanco performs in the traditional Afro-Cuban dress inspired by Yemayá, an African mother deity of the seas." For the last 12 years, Marisol Blanco has been fighting against numbers.

I’m just now getting back to my regular work, kids and household routine since returning from my trip to Africa. Every day, I run into someone who asks, “How was your trip?” What was it like hiking Mt ...

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