VALDEMAR VARGAS: I'm Mangueira school of samba (laughter). KAHN: He's not only a big fan but also works at the Pretos Novos Institute in the Rio neighborhood known as Little Africa. He gives tours ...

a two-headed cowbell originating in West Africa. The Mocidade Independente samba school, one of Rio’s most popular, has 240 drummers in its section. Based in the working-class Vila Vintem community, ...

Superstar Anitta has won over pop music fans in Brazil and abroad, even more so since she added English and Spanish singing to her seductive dancing and bold lyrics.

Press Release - The Media Foundation for West Africa condemns the arrest and intimidation of Mauritanian human rights activist Ahmed Ould Samba and calls for his release.

BdF Entrevista, one of Brasil de Fato's shows, interviewed Russo at the end of January, before the official parades of samba schools in the special group of Rio's Carnival. Russo explained that the ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.

Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...