Mandazi is a type of donut-like sweet eaten as a snack or for breakfast with a cup of chai tea.

The khanga, a vibrantly colored East African cloth, was created on the island of Zanzibar in the mid-1880s.

Sea turtles worldwide face endangerment due to pollution, poachers, fishing bycatch, beachfront development, and much more.

As preparations for the 2014 Folklife Festival begin, participants from all over Kenya are getting ready to make the journey to Washington, D.C.

One of travel’s most joyous experiences is often its most maddening. You know the feeling. A simple act of hospitality suddenly elevates your palate in the most unexpected way

What does it mean to be human? We have been asking ourselves this question for thousands of years.

The East African coast is littered with plastic and rubber waste that floats across the Indian Ocean from as far away as India and Indonesia, including countless discarded rubber flip-flops.

This winter, Folklife Festival Marketplace consultant Halle Butvin traveled to Kenya and China along with photographer Josh Eli Cogan to document the stories

Beyond the vast skies over the Kenyan island of Lamu off the shores of East Africa, a beautiful reddish-yellow sunset looms in the west as the moon and stars become faintly visible in the east.

The last vestiges of the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival have been removed from the Mall, but the long-term planning required to mount next year’s Festival is already well under way.