Author: Ewang Johnson
Currently touring Europe, jazz musician and trumpet player Takuya Kuroda sits down with FRANCE 24 to speak about his beginnings in the industry and his recording process. Originally from Kobe in Japan, Kuroda says the country’s jazz scene, particularly vibrant in Tokyo, encouraged him to go to New York. The Big Apple, he says, is still an influential “melting pot” of cultures and styles. When it comes to “contemporary crossovers” in his own music, Kuroda credits jazz vocalist José James, whom he met during his studies, with showing him how to blend jazz with other genres like funk and hip-hop.…
BELEM, Brazil, 23 November 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil showed that climate cooperation is producing results that matter for people’s lives, with real benefits across African nations. 194 countries representing billions of people have said in one voice that the Paris Agreement on climate change is working, and resolved to make it go further and faster.Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change said:“We see progress in a new agreement on just transition, signaling that building climate resilience and the clean economy must also be fair, with every nation and every person able to share…
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visits the White House, a work by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sets an auction record, Miss Mexico has the last laugh at the Miss Universe pageant and France’s young Beaujolais Nouveaux wines get their annual moment to shine: here’s a look at the week’s most striking images. Source link
Inside Africa airs on CNN International Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 1730 SASTIn a special episode of Inside Africa, celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary, Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo reflect on identity, representation, and the power of telling their own stories.For a quarter of a century, Inside Africa has told the stories of a continent in motion, highlighting the voices shaping business, sport, culture, and change. Nyong’o and Kidjo reflect on how their lives have changed in the last 25 years. Kidjo talks about her journey, “25 years ago, I think I was just arriving in France, running away from a dictatorship,…
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait “El sueno (La cama)” sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, Sotheby’s said, setting a record for the most expensive painting by a woman. Source link
Meanwhile, President Reagan’s criminal justice reforms – tougher punishments, expanded law enforcement powers, and increased incarceration – came wrapped in uncompromising rhetoric. ”The American people want their government to get tough and go on the offensive,” the president said in 1986, as he signed an anti-drug bill into law. “And that’s exactly what we intend, with more ferocity that ever before.” The character of John Doe in Seven caricatures that attitude, although Andrew Hartman, an academic historian and expert on the culture wars of the late 20th Century, tells the BBC it would be wrong to suggest that the film sided…
Contributed by Aspire InstituteAndrew Marvin Kanyike, a 26 year old from Uganda completed the Aspire Leaders Program in 2022 and received a Community Action Award for his project aiming to increase early detection of hypertension in Eastern Uganda. His commitment to medical research and making an impact on community health has led to his ongoing success.Kanyike grew up in Entebbe, Uganda, where both of his parents spent their lives. His father was a businessman who completed some of high school while his mother received a primary teaching certificate and continues to teach primary school today.He dreamed of being a medical…
This month brings the end of an era as “Stranger Things” returns for its fifth and final season. Meanwhile, Ryan Murphy’s “All’s Fair”, starring Kim Kardashian, in her first leading role has united critics in calling it a catastrophe, with The Guardian dubbing it “fascinatingly, existentially terrible”. Plus, a provocative new French series “Seduction” reimagines the classic tale of “Dangerous Liaisons”. TV critic Dheepthika Laurent guides us through the must-watch (and must-avoid) shows of the month. Source link
Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the “soul-crushing” loss of their child. It’s a powerful story that fills in many blanks.In Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell’s eloquent 2020 novel and the deeply moving new film based on it – Shakespeare’s wife, Agnes, is a herbalist who has a knowledge of medical potions and an almost supernatural ability to sense the future. But she cannot save her young son from the plague, a death that leads the boy’s father to write one of the greatest plays in all of literature, Hamlet. And almost…
London, United Kingdom, 21 November 2025 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Responding to the news of the conditional royal pardon granted on 5 November 2025 to former member of parliament, Mthandeni Dube, resulting in his supervised release, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said:“Mthandeni Dube’s release may bring relief to his family, but justice remains incomplete while his human rights are restricted by sweeping conditions and Bacede Mabuza who was arrested together with Dube, is still in prison. Both Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza should never have been imprisoned in the first place solely the peaceful exercise…