Author: Ewang Johnson

[ad_1] A Grammy-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist and producer, who is performing in Paris this weekend, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how he’s always trying to make his records better. New York-born Jesse Harris has been working with top stars such as Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson and Cat Power. His new album is called “If You Believed in Me” and has enabled him to work for the first time with a full orchestra. His performances are taking place this weekend at the Duc des Lombards venue. He spoke to us in Perspective. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation: Ginnifer Goodwin in Zootopia 2. None of them were women of colour. By contrast, there were 31 men in the same age bracket who qualified as leads or co-leads in these movies, including actors such as Anthony Mackie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pedro Pascal and Tom Cruise. “You can’t tell me that over…

[ad_1] Trade-enabling infrastructure across African markets is showing broad improvement, while business confidence and macroeconomic stability are strengthening across the continent.  This is according to Issue 5 of the Standard Bank Africa Trade Barometer (ATB), which covers: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.  “Across the 10 markets we surveyed, firms reported improvements across every major infrastructure category, including power, telecommunications, road, rail, ports and digital border systems. This marks the first time since the Standard Bank Africa Trade Barometer’s launch that all infrastructure indicators have improved simultaneously, reflecting growing investment in logistics capacity and…

[ad_1] As war shakes their home country, Iranians of the diaspora in Paris have raised their voices, calling for peace, solidarity and a sustainable transition from autocracy.  [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a “best of” came from incoming Asylum boss Joe Smith, who was seeking to raise funds while the band themselves (responsible for over 50% of the label’s revenue in the mid-’70s) delayed work on their fifth album in an attempt to renegotiate their royalties deal.Drummer-vocalist Don Henley called the record “the forced and hideous marriage of art and commerce” and told Eliot that Asylum “didn’t give a shit whether the greatest hits album was good or not. They just wanted product.”…

[ad_1] To protect biodiversity, first we must understand it. That’s why at Trees for the Future (TREES), we regularly conduct biodiversity assessments in the project areas where we work. This helps to establish a baseline for landscape restoration, identify species of concern, and map High Conservation Value (HCV) areas—a crucial component in restoring ecosystems, supporting farmers, and building resilience for the future. For smallholder farmers, biodiversity is not abstract, it directly affects crop yields, soil health, and water security. Understanding what species are present helps us all design restoration efforts that strengthen their farms as living ecosystems. In Uganda, the…

[ad_1] Wherever you travel in the world today, you will find Africans. Not as visitors. As contributors. In hospitals in London and Manchester. In technology labs in California. In lecture halls in Toronto and Boston. In global financial institutions in Dubai and Singapore. In newsrooms, design studios, research centres, sports leagues, and diplomatic circles. Africans are not sitting on the margins of the global system. They are helping to run it. Yet something curious persists. The global African reality has evolved rapidly. The story told about Africa has not kept pace. For decades, the dominant narrative about the continent has…

[ad_1] This article contains potential spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.We can’t hide from death even though our culture can often be accused of trying to do so. Our dreams of trans-humanism, systematic acceptance of nursing homes, and transition to “celebrations of life” rather than funerals do offer some validity to that claim. However, we can overestimate the effect that any of these trends and tendencies have on obscuring our view of the Reaper and his trusty scythe.For the simple and obvious fact is that we humans just can’t sweep death under the rug. There is no running from it…

[ad_1] Of the three major European film festivals, Berlin’s annual event has often featured political films and commentary. Yet this year’s jury president Wim Wenders stirred up controversy when he said that artists should “stay out of politics”, prompting Indian author Arundhati Roy to cancel her appearance at the festival. Film critic Emma Jones brings us up to date on this heated debate and flags up the movies making headlines at the Berlinale so far. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society “crashing into each other”, as Don Cheadle’s weary cop Graham Waters utters in the opening minutes, many felt it too often prioritised its white characters’ perspectives. “[They] have interiority, and they’re dealing with all these brown characters who are just stereotypes,” says Demby, pointing in particular to Dillon’s bent cop character, who stops and molests Newton’s character Christine in front of her husband Cameron during a highway stop-and-search, only to rescue her from a car crash in a later scene. Newton herself told Vulture in 2020 that…