Author: Ewang Johnson
Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, on Friday, marking a return to glittering pop. The 35-year-old teamed up again with Swedish producers Max Martin and Shellback, whose signature beats and hooks drive the hotly anticipated record of love, success and revenge. Source link
A bold new short film series, Nya Uriri (Pek Chi Liel) – The Widow’s Burden, has been released and is already generating a buzz across Kenyan social media. Blending satire, humor, and hard-hitting truths, the project tackles the controversial subject of widow inheritance and women’s economic empowerment in African culture.The story unfolds during the funeral of a young man where grief quickly gives way to chaos as brothers, uncles, and mourners fight openly over the future of the widow and her children. Inheritance, gender roles, and cultural traditions clash in a heated mix of drama and comedy that has left audiences…
The seaside town of Dinard in Brittany is rolling out the red carpet for stars from Ireland and the UK as it hosts its annual film festival. Culture editor Eve Jackson tells us about the dramas, documentaries and horror stories screening there this year, and catches up with actress and director Kristin Scott Thomas as she presents the very personal “My Mother’s Wedding”. We also weigh up Leonardo DiCaprio’s prospects as Oscar buzz surrounds the actor’s latest performance. Plus: Swifties, rejoice! Taylor Swift releases her 12th album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, and reflects upon a life spent on stage. Source…
Zuckerberg may have a point, but it’s hardly the first time that a film has twisted the truth for dramatic and thematic purposes. “As a historian and someone who believes very strongly in media literacy, I always approach and encourage others to approach a film based on real events as still a dramatisation,” Jason Steinhauer, the author of History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past, tells the BBC. “Every Hollywood film takes liberties, removes elements from the story, heightens the drama, and accentuates certain characters, all in the name of storytelling. I would…
Africa and its diaspora took center stage in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) as Culturally Bound and SpiralH presented Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds, powered by the Afreximbank’s Global Africa Gateway at The Africa Center. Hosted by the Future Africa Forum 2025, the private screening and discussion formed part of a global gathering that champions Africa’s cultural power, policy innovation, and investment strength as engines of shared prosperity.The program began with a powerful welcome from Ambassador Martin Kimani, President & CEO of The Africa Center, who spoke of Africa’s future as inseparable from its global diaspora. “At…
The future of the UN is at stake. For it to remain relevant and survive, it must cast off dogma and embrace a results-oriented approach. In the corridors of the United Nations as it celebrates its 80th anniversary, anxious diplomats speak of a new ‘darkest hour’. Conflicts rage in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and beyond. Climate shocks intensify. Human displacement has reaches record levels. Humanitarian budgets shrink. It is no wonder that the President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock has warned that “there are some people out there saying…we don’t need this institution anymore.” The causes are known to us…
When you find out that your favorite modern novelist has written her own new fantasy take on your all-time favorite novel, at first you feel elated. Then you feel nervous. (Or at least I do.) Of course she’ll nail it—right? She’s a wonderful writer—but it’s a formidable task …Turns out I needn’t have worried. A Far Better Thing, H. G. Parry’s version of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, is everything I could have asked for, and then some.A Far Better Thing is one of those takeoffs that makes you both love it for itself, and love the book it’s based on even…
After breaking most music industry records during her “Eras” tour in 2023 and 2024, Taylor Swift is back with the hotly anticipated account of that time in the form of her twelfth studio album. “The Life of a Showgirl” brings in pop princess Sabrina Carpenter and Swedish producers Max Martin and Shellback, who produced Swift’s synth pop album “1989” and mega hits “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space”. The release coincides with a weekend screening of a behind-the-scenes documentary, where the US star will unveil a new music video from this latest album. FRANCE 24’s Olivia Salazar-Winspear tells us more.…
“The idea started as a concept after watching Poltergeist [1982] for probably the 100th time,” Leonberg tells BBC Culture. “In the opening of that film, the family’s dog clearly senses the presence of the ghost before anyone else. That trope of ‘the dog who knows better’ appears in so many horror films, and I thought, ‘Someone should really tell that story from the dog’s perspective.'”Leonberg didn’t have to search far to cast the lead, as Indy is his own dog, who he thought could be perfect due to his “intense, unblinking stare”. Through expressive head tilts, whimpers and inquisitive stares,…
Prof. Benedict Oramah, President Afreximbank and Akaego Okoye, Founder African Business StoriesNEW YORK, United States of America, 02nd October 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, African Business Stories (ABS) marked the one-year anniversary of its flagship Roundtable Series with two milestones: the presentation of its inaugural Africa Champion Award to Prof. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), and the launch of its first Impact Report, capturing a year of progress in closing Africa’s $42 billion gender financing gap.Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida’s 20th District)The event opened with special remarks from Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida’s 20th District),…