Author: Ewang Johnson

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…

This week on Paris des Arts, author and filmmaker Amanda Sthers joins us to discuss her latest novel, “C”, in which she explores the transformation of a couple while also portraying a France stripped of nuance, obsessed with identity issues and the rise of extremism. Source link

With Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked, on which the successful Broadway musical and now duo of feature films are based, The Wicked Witch of the West was given a name – Elphaba – and a backstory that elicits empathy for an outcast who was branded a villain for standing up for those less fortunate. In reclaiming the witch as a misunderstood character and, along with aspirational pop cultural representations such as Bewitched’s Samantha and Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige Halliwell of the 1990s series Charmed, the conical hat becomes a lot less sinister.It’s also partly thanks to Academy Award-winning Wicked costume…

DURBAN, South Africa — Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, used a keynote address at the 19th Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture on Thursday to deliver a pointed assessment of global trade tensions and a cautious but optimistic outlook for Africa’s economic future.Speaking at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Westville Campus, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala said the international trading system is under strain from escalating unilateral tariffs and declining multilateral cooperation. She warned that increased protectionism by major economies threatens the stability of global markets, noting that recent tariff hikes had sharply raised duties on several countries, including South Africa.“Trade…