Category: Africa
-
Billboard launch America’s first afrobeats chart
Billboard has gone live with America’s first ever Afrobeats chart in partnership with trailblazing festival group Afro Nation. The first chart topper is CKay’s ‘Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)‘, a song that had the world hooked over the summer –…
-
Agnes Tirop: Superstar Runner, World Record breaker, dies aged 25.
Petition link: VALERIE’S LAW Compulsory Training for Agencies Supporting Black DV Victims Before you learn of her assumed murder and sensationalise the fact that her husband is being questioned as a prime suspect – I want you to take time…
-
African leaders must let go of the ‘throne’: An Election story as old as time
The tale of autocratic African leaders clutching onto power in old age, even as their health fails, has become overwhelmingly familiar. This may be why..
-
Could Nigerian champ, ‘D’Real Show Boi’, be world champion one day?
Other than holding Nigeria’s national boxing title and the West African boxing title too, it’s no surprise that people are starting to ask who he is. ..
-
Meet the man turning amateur boxers from Lagos into Champions
In Lagos, just before Coronavirus took over the world, people were getting excited about local boxing. A video of an eight-year-old girl boxing went viral in early November. The little girl in the video, Shekinah, showed incredible speed. A clear…
-
“Queen Of Katwe” Nikita Pearl Waligwa passes away aged 15, Lupita Nyong’o and co-stars pays tribute
Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who starred in the 2016 film Queen Of Katwe, passed away on Saturday in Kampala after “battling with brain cancer”…
-
Zimbabwe makes her mark on Netflix with “cook-off”
“Cook Off” is Zimbabwe’s Netflix debut, a charming romantic-comedy directed by Thomas Brickhill The story focuses on a young single mother, Anesu, who has a natural flair for cooking. Her son pushes her to participate in a televised cooking competition…
