Author: Ewang Johnson
Veteran sci-fi film-maker James Cameron has returned with another cinematic spectacle: Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment of the franchise, 16 years after its debut. The film picks up after the events of the 2022 Avatar: the Way of Water, with a grieving Sully family after the death of Jake and Neytiri’s son. Critics say, if you love Avatar you’ll love this – if not, it could appear to be just more of the same. Either way it is an epic film with an epic cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Winslet. Eliza Herbert takes…
Terrelonge also notes that the kind of fabrics found in these countryside styles, the waxed cottons, leathers and tweeds, are aspirational, in an understated rather than showy way. Plus, for the wearer, there’s a quiet confidence lent to them by the assurance that these textiles are going to stay warm and dry, even in the changeable British weather. Psychologically, she says, these kinds of tactile fabrics “that signal nature… create a calming and secure feeling” as well as “feelings of ‘I’m going to go out [with] purpose in the world’, making people feel more competent and capable in a time…
Michelle Nagawa, a 25 year old Aspire Leaders Program alum from 2022, studied Surveying Land Information Systems and received a grant from Aspire Institute for a community project within the Katanga slum area in 2023. A first-generation university graduate and the first-born in her family, she has always strived to be an inspiration to her siblings and other young people. “As the first born, you have nothing to fall back on. That has always hit me hard, it still does,” Nagawa admitted. “But the dynamic has always been that I did what had to be done to take the shock away,…
From Lisbeth Salander to Mother Teresa, Noomi Rapace has never shied away from transformative, fearless roles. In her latest film “Mother”, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska, the Swedish actress takes on one of her most radical characters yet: a young Mother Teresa in 1948, on the brink of leaving the convent to follow her calling. But this is no reverential biopic. “Mother” is raw, provocative, and intimate – a “punk rock” portrait that demystifies the saint and reveals the ambitious, conflicted woman beneath. Source link
The star is “captivating”, alongside an “impeccable” Gwyneth Paltrow, in this “madcap” film about a young man who scams and steals his way to becoming a table-tennis champion.Quite apart from his on-screen characters, Timothée Chalamet is one of the most performative actors around, especially when promoting a film. For Marty Supreme, in which he plays an aspiring ping-pong champion in 1952, he has already acted as a self-important version of himself in a video spoof of a marketing meeting for the film, and appeared at a pop-up store selling Marty Supreme merch accompanied by men with giant orange ping-pong balls…
Geneva, Switzerland , 28 November 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- African countries have reached consensus on the priority actions, commitments and milestones that will shape the Africa Health Workforce Agenda 2026–2035 in a major step towards transforming how the continent plans, trains and retains its health workforce. Member States, professional councils, universities, development partners and technical experts gathering in Pretoria from 24 to 26 November 2025 for consultation convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa agreed on a unified direction for the forthcoming Agenda, which will be formally endorsed and launched by Member States in 2026. The shared priorities focus…
The 2026 edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which was due to take place at the end of January but was hampered by the boycott of authors and the defection of publishers, has been officially “cancelled”. FRANCE 24’s James Vasina reports. Source link
Garcia told Denselow that the times might have changed but the scene remained just as vital all those years later. “[Haight-Ashbury’s hippies] are still pretty much doing what they were doing then, but… the difference is now they have 15 years of experience under their belts and have gotten to be experts in what they do, just like we’ve gotten to be experts in what we do – sort of.” He said that when the Grateful Dead first started out, the US was largely unchanged from the staid 1950s era: “A lot of times we would come into a town…
By Taofik Oloruko-Oba, Country Manager, Kenya and Head of East Africa Network at Roche DiagnosticsEach November, World Diabetes Day raises global awareness about a condition that affects people of all ages — children, working adults and older people alike.1 In Kenya, diabetes is emerging as a major health priority, with an estimated 813,000 adults living with the condition — roughly 3.1% of the adult population. Many remain undiagnosed or receive care too late, but that can change through early testing and integrated, life-stage-based care.2 Across East Africa, health systems are evolving from limited screening and episodic treatment to more comprehensive primary care.…
Thinking about African urbanism means recognising the vitality of the continent and producing intellectual, political and practical frameworks that reject inherited models. The collective Je m’engage pour l’Afrique (JMA) has published a manifesto entitled ‘Urbanité citoyenne en mouvement’ (Citizen Urbanity in Motion), in collaboration with the Brazilian organisation BrCidades and Professor Glória Cecília Figueiredo of the Federal University of Bahia. This document was presented this week at the Brazil-France Forum, Dialogues with Africa, organised as part of the Notre Futur festival in Salvador de Bahia. This manifesto is the result of citizen engagement by young beneficiaries of the JMA 2025…