{"id":40337,"date":"2025-11-17T14:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40337"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:21:43","slug":"student-club-celebrates-and-honors-african-cultures-during-afro-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/student-club-celebrates-and-honors-african-cultures-during-afro-night-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Student club celebrates and honors African cultures during Afro Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what culture you\u2019re from, everyone dances, and Furman University members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/afrikiya_fu\/\">Afrikiya<\/a> student organization united the campus community through dance, music, poetry and more at their annual event, Afro Night Out, on Nov. 6 in Burgiss Theater. Furman\u2019s student body represents 58 countries from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/apply\/international-students\/\">around the world<\/a>, and the students of Afrikiya highlight the vibrant cultures of Africa by having international students show off their country\u2019s flags and cultural dances from their homes. The student-organized event also featured the Furman University Gospel Ensemble and performances by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQz9Nf8AdjF\/\">Purple Diamonds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members of Afrikiya celebrated their signature annual event, featuring music, dance and more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":40327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3492,70,27,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-events","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-student-life","category-study-away-and-international-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42395,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions\/42395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}