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“My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.” These words came from Hugh Masekela, South Africa’s music icon who succumbed to prostate cancer on January 23, 2018, exactly the same date that his Zimbabwean counterpart, Oliver Mtukudzi, died one year later. |
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This post has already been read 97169 times! Felix Tshisekedi has vowed to be the president “of all Congolese” after the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) electoral commission declared him the winner of the country’s long-delayed elections. The result, which was announced in the early hours of.... |
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Money, respect and power – he has it all. From Europe to America; from Asia to Africa and back home in Nigeria, he has achieved great heights. He has seen and conquered the world. For more than six decades, Sir Bode Akindele has been one of Africa’s richest individuals. |
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This week on The Sound Kitchen, you'll hear the answer to the question about the recently discovered tomb in Egypt. There's “On This Day”, music by request from listener Jayanta Chakrabarty – and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy! Hello everyone!.... |
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Anti-defection law is a must, but who will be bold enough to introduce it? I’m writing with reference to the very thought-provoking article by Javid Yusuf in his weekly column ‘In the National Interest’ which appeared in the Sunday Times, a few weeks ago. Mr. Yusuf emphasised that an ‘anti- defection law’ is a must. |
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WFAA (ATHENS, Texas) — A 13-year-old middle school student is dead after a train plowed into a bus at a crossing with no warning lights or gates in a small town in east Texas. The accident happened at approximately 4 p.m. in Athens, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, as the bus driver was taking students home from school. |
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Facebook/Kelly Phillips (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Kelly Phillips was going to die. That much was certain. The question was when. As the terminally ill cancer patient lay in bed, contemplating the few short months his doctors said he had left, he knew that this business of dying would not take place in hospice care in New Jersey. |
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The Hoodwinked trail boosted Nottingham's economy by an estimated 2.2 million during the summer of 2018, council figures show. Back in July, 33 unique and colourful robin sculptures were scattered across the city, and around 195,000 visitors took to the streets with maps and a mobile app to help track them down. |
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Local TD and Minister for Culture, Heritage, & the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, officially launched the free DLR Heritage Winter Programme 2019 in Marlay House last week. The programme runs until the beginning of March. The Winter of Heritage event is part of a series of free guided tours run by the.... |
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Residents of Monkey Hill in Sekondi-Takoradi, the Western Regional capital, have been gripped with fear following the mysterious killing of a 16-year-old boy in the area. The lifeless body of Kweku Gyamerah, a final-year student of Bishop Essuah Junior High School (JHS) in Takoradi, was found in a.... |
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Sinn Fein has been accused of sending out the signal to dissident republicans that “their actions are justified” by appearing to have “withdrawn” its condemnation of last Saturday’s car bombing in Londonderry. Unionists have heaped criticism on the party, with DUP MP Gregory Campbell saying it is.... |
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