Author: Ewang Johnson
Africa stands as the world’s second-largest continent in both land area and population. This vast landmass is nearly isolated from other continents, connected to Asia only by a small land bridge in the northeast that links the African mainland with Western Asia.GeographyCovering approximately 30,244,000 km² (11,700,000 mi²), Africa represents about 6% of Earth’s total surface area. When including its adjacent islands, the continent encompasses around 20% of the world’s total land area, making it a substantial portion of our planet’s geography.Political BoundariesAfrica’s political landscape consists of:48 countries on the mainland6 island nations considered part of the continent54 sovereign African countries…
They say that perception matters. This Thursday, Nigeria will witness the opening of the first Afreximbank African Trade Centre (AATC), a state-of-the-art twin nine-storey office and business hotel complex. The Abuja AATC offers a new perspective to creating clusters that will help cement business opportunities, change mindset and elevate the business environment across our continent. Why does this commercial development matter? It does because as the first of many across Africa, it will create new benchmarks in real estate and in corporate workspaces. And in an increasingly turbulent world, fraught with uncertainty and increased isolationism bringing African solutions to transform…
What no doubt resonates most with viewers is the show’s ability to capture this human longing for belonging.No doubt we’ve all read the post-mortems about church in America: the declines in membership, the exodus from sanctuaries, the loss of faith in religious institutions. Writing for The Atlantic last April, Derek Thompson, who self-identifies as agnostic, posits that the diminishment of church life, and the community it offers, has exacerbated our country’s rising rates of loneliness, and that “in forgoing organized religion, an isolated country has discarded an old and proven source of ritual at a time when we most need…
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the Belgian-Moroccan dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Geneva’s Grand Theatre, speaks to Dheepthika Laurent about his works “Boléro” and “Ihsane”. The latter explores his complicated relationship with his late father and is a reference to a homophobic killing in 2012. Through his work, Cherkaoui has explored double culture, queer identity and removing gender boundaries. He also talks about choreographing for others: Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “Apeshit” video clip that was filmed in the Louvre museum and the “Like a Prayer” dance for Madonna’s Celebration Tour last year. Source link
NetflixViewers have been “shattered” by Eulogy, an emotional new episode in the seventh season of Charlie Brooker’s series, starring Paul Giamatti.Since 2011, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ dystopian anthology series, Black Mirror, has presented 34 stories about the dark side of technology: how computer systems and digital gadgets might distort, warp and even end life for humans.There have been the shocking, twist-filled episodes – a prime minister is forced to have intercourse with a pig on live TV to release a kidnapped princess (National Anthem); a woman chased by bounty hunters on a sadistic reality TV show is revealed to…
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New films from Wes Anderson, Jafar Panahi and Julia Ducourneau will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, with Scarlett Johansson set to star both on-screen and behind the camera Source link
AlamyThe Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925.Few characters in literature or indeed life embody an era quite so tenaciously as Jay Gatsby does the Jazz Age. Almost a century after he was written into being, F Scott Fitzgerald’s doomed romantic has become shorthand for decadent flappers, champagne fountains and never-ending parties. Cut loose by pop culture from the text into which he was born, his name adorns everything from condominiums to hair wax…
Now, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa are launching the Correct the Map campaign to put an end to this enduring falsehood.For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world maps—has shrunk the continent, distorting its scale and minimizing its global significance.Africa covers 30.37 million square kilometers—large enough to fit the United States, China, India, and most of Europe combined. Yet, in classrooms, newsrooms, publications, and boardrooms worldwide, the Mercator projection presents Africa as much smaller than it really is.Designed for 16th-century maritime navigation, the map artificially enlarges Global North…
Washington has brought out the heavy artillery: digital taxation has become a geopolitical battlefield. States daring to tax tech giants face threats of retaliation. In this context, a fundamental overhaul of the international tax framework is essential. A North–South coalition, backed by the United Nations, could lay the foundation for a new balance — fairer, more resilient, and more respectful of national sovereignty. The current international tax system, inherited from the 20th century, taxes factories but not algorithms. It tracks warehouses but ignores clouds. The result: the ten largest platforms (Google, Apple, Meta, TikTok, Baidu…) generated over $500 billion in…