There are many things that separate Hawa Juma, a 25-year-old Utica resident and first generation Somali Bantu, from her parents, who arrived in Utica in the early 2000s to escape the country's war.

Paper presented at a symposium on Tradition, Innovation and Interpretation: Issues in the Collection and Display of the Arts of Zaire in Historical Perspective, held at the American Museum of Natural ...

Somali men wearing everything from crisp suits to sweatshirts stood across the room from a row of women, who had wrapped themselves in colorful variations of the more traditional shaal. One by one, ...

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The singer Adele has been accused of cultural appropriation after sharing a photo of herself on Instagram with her hair in Bantu knots — a traditional African hairstyle. The photo, in which she is ...