Author: Ewang Johnson

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love”, has died at the age of 88. Famed for his dazzling wit and depth, Stoppard was credited with reshaping modern theatre, combining intellectual subjects with comedy.  Source link

Released on 25 December in the UK and 26 December in the UKSearchlight PIctures11. The Testament of Ann LeeOne of the last year’s most acclaimed films was The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet and co-written by him and his partner, Mona Fastvold. The Testament of Ann Lee is a kind of companion piece, in that it was directed by Fastvold and co-written by her and Corbet. And, like The Brutalist, it’s an ambitious historical epic, shot on 35mm film stock, about a European bringing radical ideas to the US. Its heroine is a real person, played by Amanda Seyfried, who…

CASABLANCA, Morocco, 28 November 2025/African Media Agency (AMA) – TECNO, the Official Global Partner of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (“AFCON”) Morocco 2025 , just unveiled its continent-wide 2025 campaign, “Power Your Moment”, celebrating the joy, passion, and defining triumphs that shape this iconic tournament. Built to highlight how TECNO’s cutting-edge AI ecosystem elevates every meaningful moment in the lives of young Africans, the brand is rolling out a dynamic lineup of creative, interactive, and culturally engaging experiences throughout AFCON 2025.Leading the campaign is the debut of TECNO’s new musical brand film, also titled “Power Your Moment”, a…

South Africa hosted the G20 with a level of discipline, clarity and steadiness that demonstrated the maturity of African leadership on the global stage. I was in Johannesburg during the summit and witnessed a country fully aware of its responsibility. Global figures arrived ready for rigorous engagement, and South Africa created an environment that allowed these discussions to move with focus. The presidency’s theme of Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability aligned with the way the summit unfolded and reflected the continent’s priorities with precision. Ubuntu offered an additional philosophical lens that brought a human-centred approach to global governance. South Africa did…

With audiences dwindling and streaming on the rise, Paris’s iconic arthouse cinemas are racing to reinvent themselves or risk closing for good. One cinema in the Champs-Elysées area has adopted a “modular” economic model, enabling screening rooms to be rapidly transformed into reception spaces. Source link

Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he thought of as ‘a dying race’,” Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos “signs of modernity” such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped in time, living only in the past. In perpetuating the myth of the “Vanishing Indian”, she says, Curtis erased the “reality” that Indigenous people “have adapted to new technologies throughout time”.  By wearing her tribal regalia, Red Star is saying, ‘We’re here, we’re not going anywhere’ – Wahsontiio CrossIn contrast, by making herself the main subject in each of her photographic seasons, Red…

GAUTENG, South Africa, 28 November 2025 /African Media Agency (AMA)/ – The City of Ekurhuleni (COE), located in Gauteng Province, South Africa, is widely recognized as one of the country’s most urbanized (97%) and industrially developed core economic zones.COE is accelerating its digital transformation, Electric power reliability is a key driver of vitality in COE. The original network equipment on COE’s electric power campuses was outdated, with many devices still operating on Wi-Fi 5 standards. The resulting weak signal strength and limited coverage significantly impacted staff productivity and overall network experience. The legacy wireless campus network, With a large number…

Seydou Kanté is originally from Tambacounda, a town in eastern Senegal. A former diplomat, he is now an international consultant for UNESCO. The writer is the founder of the African Institute of Geopolitics and Geostrategy in Dakar. A specialist in migration and geopolitical issues, committed to analysing the dynamics of power, territories and human mobility, he has devoted his work to understanding the relationships between populations, states and spaces in a rapidly changing global context. In Géopolitique de l’émigration irrégulière, l’exemple du Sénégal (Geopolitics of Irregular Emigration: The Example of Senegal), he analyses the mechanisms and contemporary imbalances of this…

For many people there is a reflexive shudder that rips through them upon seeing homes decorated for Halloween. They clutch the pearls of their souls as their color drains to ghostly white.How can you like something so morbid?I draw tremendous comfort from Spooky Season.I know what they’re talking about; I’m not irredeemably dense. But in another, important sense, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Because I draw tremendous comfort from Spooky Season. I see the same ghosts and skeletons in people’s yards and windows and I feel comfort. A chilly comfort, to be sure, but chills are sometimes just…

In this arts24 interview, Grammy-nominated poet aja monet joins us in Paris to talk about her new collection “Florida Water” and what it means to make art in a moment of political turmoil. She opens up about living through the new wave of American culture-war battles – from book bans to attacks on arts funding – and explains why she believes poetry has become an important tool for resistance, healing and community. aja monet also reflects on the heartbreak at the centre of “Florida Water”, her long-standing activism for Palestine and the loneliness she sees shaping a generation. With poems like “Castaway” and…