ETA Creative Arts Foundation on the South Side is offering an unusual mixture of modern sentiment and African tradition in “Shango Diaspora,” a parable about love, with song and dance. Angela ...

What we're listening to is an invocation to Shango, one of the orishas or gods of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. Shango is the great god of thunder, and this is chanting in praise of him, calling him ...

'Giants die in our midst unnoticed. A grand monumental tree falls in the garden and its like nobody even knew there was a tree.' So begins a recent obituary to a man who is at the heart of our program ...