This year marks the hundred and fifth anniversary of the twenty-sixth president’s expedition to Kenya and eastern Africa, where he traveled and hunted big game with three Smithsonian scientists and his son Kermit Roosevelt

This summer, twenty-four Smithsonian museums and centers are competing to find the one object that best represents the Smithsonian—and you can help choose!

You only have to take a few bites of soda bread to see how it could have sustained a family of nine

Three and a half weeks after the Folklife Festival, there are still a few pieces to pick up. Participants settled back home in Kenya and China are starting to send in their feedback

The ingredients for this recipe come from 2014 Festival participant Fatma Ali Busaidy, whose traditional Swahili cooking from the east coast of Kenya frequently uses coconut milk, cardamom, and rice.

If you attended the 2014 Folklife Festival, you may have seen a group of stately, rainbow-ribbon-bedecked Kenyan men getting stopped often for photographs

With a heat index of 104⁰ in the capital today, Folklife Festival visitors might be more concerned with trying not to melt than with stopping to take in the arts and culture offered by participant artists.

The Folklife Festival’s Kenyan and Chinese participants are as diverse as the crafts and music styles they represent.

U.S. National Park Service rangers and Kenyan Wildlife Service rangers met on the National Mall Friday morning as part of the Folklife Festival’s Kenya

The Folklife Festival is a sensory overload. Craftsmen yell out to each other in multiple languages, musicians groove on all corners of the Mall