Author: Ewang Johnson
APO Group, the leading Pan-African communications and media relations consultancy, has earned two major accolades at the prestigious 2025 Davos Communications Awards held on11April 2025, in Davos, Switzerland: a Gold Award for Canon’s ‘World Unseen’ campaign at GITEX Africa and a Bronze Award for the ‘10 Years of Miraisha’ celebration. The Davos Communications Awards, presented by the World Communications Forum Association (WCFA), recognise exceptional communications firms, experts, and internal teams that have produced excellence and achieved quantifiable impact worldwide. Canon’s World Unseen Experience, which won Gold, was a PR event that broke new ground. It launched at GITEX Africa, enabling…
Funk icon and pioneering multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, whose band Sly and the Family Stone remolded musical norms and challenged segregation along racial and gender lines, died at the age of 82 on Monday, his family said, leaving behind a legendary, genre-mashing discography which lifted Afrocentric music and hippie culture. Source link
A24Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal make for a starry love triangle in this exquisite new film from director Celine Song, who previously made the Oscar-nominated Past Lives.If you’ve seen any of the trailers for Celine Song’s Materialists, ignore them. In those previews and on paper, the film seems like a well-cast but stock romantic comedy, with Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker torn between a former love (Chris Evans) and a dazzling new possibility (Pedro Pascal). In fact, the film is hardly a romcom at all, but something far more original and captivating: a piercingly honest exploration of…
By Yacine Djibo, Executive Director, Speak Up Africa For decades, global donors and development institutions shaped the agenda for NTD elimination. Today, that dynamic is changing. Across the continent, African leaders, communities, and advocates are stepping forward with bold, locally driven efforts to put an end to these diseases. Africa carries 40% of the global burden of NTDs, a group of 20 infectious diseases that flourish in areas with poor sanitation, unsafe water, and limited healthcare access. These same areas are now increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change, with rising temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events increasing…
Spoiler Alert: This article contains potential spoilers for Andor season two.Andor’s second and final season concludes with a montage that offers us brief glimpses of its characters’ ultimate fates. Series namesake Cassian Andor fully embraces his role as a rebel leader as he strides through the Yavin IV compound and leaves for Kafrene, heading directly into the events of 2016’s Rogue One. (Not surprisingly, one clever YouTuber has already spliced the Andor and Rogue One scenes together.)Season two standout Kleya Marki, once fearful of traveling to Yavin IV because of her covert (and controversial) work with Luthen Rael, seems to…
US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap crippling tariffs on foreign-made movies has dominated discussions at the Cannes Film Festival, dampening the mood at the film market that runs parallel with the festival and frustrating movie professionals who were looking for a boost from cinema’s glitziest showcase. Source link
Edgar Lungu, the immediate past president of Zambia, has died at 68 while receiving treatment in Pretoria, South Africa. Lungu, who rose swiftly through his country’s political ranks, served as Zambia’s president from 2015 to 2021 before losing to current president Hakainde Hichilema. Though he initially retired, Lungu re-entered politics in 2023, planning to challenge his successor in the next presidential election. However, Lungu was barred from contesting by the nation’s Constitutional Court, which ruled that he had already served the constitutionally allowed two terms. Despite this, he remained influential in Zambian politics. A lawyer by training, Lungu boosted Chinese investment during…
Neeraj Ghaywan’s first film in a decade, about two friends striving to escape their marginalised roots in rural India, has packed an emotional punch at the Cannes Film Festival. He talks to FRANCE 24 about the personal significance of “Homebound” and Martin Scorsese’s decisive help in bringing the long-gestating project to completion. Source link
Cape Town based NPO, I AM WATER, celebrates 15 years of ocean connection workshops and The Earthshot Prize 2025 nomination I AM WATER Ocean Conservation Foundation is proud to announce its nomination for the prestigious Earthshot Prize 2025, a global recognition that celebrates transformative and scalable solutions to repair and regenerate the planet. This nomination reflects over a decade of dedicated work reconnecting underserved youth with the ocean resulting in the OCEAN FOR ALL Alliance Global initiative. “We believe that to protect our oceans, we must first connect people to them – especially the next generation,” said Hanli Prinsloo, Founder…
✨💄Cara Delevingne made her debut in Cannes as a L’Oréal Paris ambassador. France 24’s Stella Elgersma caught up with her to find out more! Source link