Author: Ewang Johnson
Bad Bunny won album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards, becoming the first Spanish-language artist to claim the top prize. Accepting in Spanish and English, he dedicated the award to migrants. Billie Eilish won song of the year for Wildflower and criticised immigration authorities. The prize was presented by Harry Styles, who beat Bad Bunny in 2023. Source link
The 68th annual Grammy Awards take place this Sunday night in Los Angeles. Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominees, along with Lady Gaga, pop princess Sabrina Carpenter, R+B singer Leon Thomas, and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, who could make history with the first win for an “album of the year” sung entirely in Spanish. Details and analysis by Christina L. Myers, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Michigan State University. Source link
Music superstars are set to attend the Grammy Awards in California on Sunday with top acts Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga all in the running for the coveted Album of the Year award. Source link
Nigeria’s Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti will be posthumously honored this weekend with a Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming the first African artist to receive the prestigious distinction. Source link
The development of Arpraziquantel to treat children of all ages for schistosomiasis which is endemic in many parts of Africa is a clear demonstration that to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, collaboration between African and international experts is essential. In many parts of Africa, a child can go to school, drink clean water at home, follow public health advice and still be exposed to a disease that quietly shapes their health for years. I have seen this at first-hand while working with communities where everyday activities like playing, washing, or collecting water carry hidden health risks that families cannot reasonably avoid or detect. Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease transmitted through contaminated…
This week on Paris des Arts, singer Faudel makes his long-awaited comeback. Once crowned the “little prince of Raï”, the Algerian folk icon returns to the spotlight with his nostalgic 2000s tour “I Gotta Feeling”. He also takes us inside “Tenter l’art pour soigner” at the Arab World Institute – an exhibition exploring art as healing through archives and ceramics from an Algerian hospital that broke with colonial psychiatry in the late 1960s. Source link
Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison and how authority reshapes leadership, belonging, and memory in Africa. I have always been interested in what happens to leaders after they take power. Not the moment of arrival, but what follows once authority becomes established. Over time, decisions feel less tentative. The space for reversal narrows. Staying in office begins to shape behaviour in ways that are not always visible to those exercising power. That interest drew me to Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison. The book asks the reader to slow down and pay attention. Mamdani resists easy conclusions. His concern is not only with events,…
Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning Canadian and American actress who starred as Kevin’s beleaguered mother in “Home Alone”, has died at the age of 71, her agents announced on Friday. Source link
Universal Pictures9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in ConcertWhen Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of boxes of unseen documentary footage. Much of it concerned Presley’s residencies in Las Vegas following his 1968 comeback special: there were interviews, rehearsals, and hours of outtakes from his two 1970s concert films. Now Luhrmann has restored and edited this footage to make a brand new concert film – and it could lead us to reassess Presley’s later career. Watching EPiC will match going to “the greatest concert you ever saw”, promises Owen Gleiberman in Variety. “The movie is a revelation, because…
As protests over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents sweep the US, the outrage has spilled into the cultural world – reaching the red carpets of the Sundance Film Festival and igniting fierce criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. At Sundance, stars including Natalie Portman and Elijah Wood donned “ICE OUT” pins and joined calls for justice following the deaths of Pretti and Renee Good at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol agents. Source link