COBA, Collective of Black Artists is dedicated to creating and presenting the finest traditions in dance and music that celebrate and reflect an Africanist aesthetic. Our mission is to preserve the cultural traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora through education, research and public performance. The Collective presents Traditional West African dance, music and folklore; Caribbean Indigenous Folk dance, music and rituals in their purest forms possible for a theatrical stage. While also creating contemporary works developed from an Africanist movement aesthetic that reflects social and global African realities.