Author: Ewang Johnson
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 25 July 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- There’s a kind of magic that happens when your feet hit red earth and the wind smells like lemongrass. For Feven Tsehaye, founder of Chakka Origins and guest on the Dreaming in Color podcast, that’s not nostalgia. It’s a vision of the future taking root.Raised in Addis Ababa, Tsehaye speaks with the ease of someone who knows that healing takes many forms. Sometimes it’s found in traditions, recipes and oils passed down by grandmothers. She learned about plants and herbs from her own grandmother – and now, she’s scaling those indigenous traditions.Chakka Origins takes its name…
This is the second article in a three-part series. (Read Part I here.)In the first part of this series, we introduced the idea of exotheology—theological reflection on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The goal was to establish a framework for thinking about alien life without distorting Scripture or drifting into ungrounded speculation. Now, in this second article, we step outside the theological library and into the broader culture to understand how the idea of alien life took hold in the public imagination. Why is it that, when people hear the word “alien,” they picture little green men in flying saucers?Why is…
Global pop icon Taylor Swift has officially joined the world-famous Madame Tussauds ! Fans can now get up close with her lifelike wax figure, capturing the star’s signature style and presence in stunning detail. Don’t miss your chance to meet the music legend like never before ! Source link
Particularly key is the knives-edge music that plays when blonde bombshell Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), not long after checking in to the Bates Motel, is attacked through a shower curtain by a shadowy killer, who later turns out to be the motel’s owner, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), dressed up as his dead mother. “That music is everything,” says Rachel Zeffira, a film composer and one half of art-folk duo Cat’s Eyes. “It’s the birds, it’s the bees, and it’s the voices in the back of your head.” Source link
Draft strategic roadmap and policy framework envisage a future where every African learner has to access locally developed digital education by 2030, transforming the continental economic and social landscape The African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) today launched the draft African EdTech 2030: Vision, Plan and Policy framework for consultation and stakeholder input. The ambitious new vision sets out an achievable roadmap to transform African education systems through technology whilst positioning the continent as the global leader in mobile-first, locally-relevant digital learning. The vision, mission and policy framework were unveiled during the STEMtastic Adventures! Africa symposium. Aligned with Agenda 2063, STISA-2034,…
Ravenhill recalled that upon telling Kane that he thought Cleansed was brilliant, she smiled and replied, “Yeah, well, I’m in love”. A couple of months later, when she directed Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck at the Gate, Kane removed the possibility of redemption for any of the characters. “Yeah, well, I fell out of love,” Kane explained. As explored in her final two plays, 1998’s Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis, Kane had fallen out with the idea of love itself. She wrote Crave under the pseudonym Marie Kelvedon to detach herself from the associations of her name, allowing her to explore a free-flowing…
By Johan Gellatly – Managing Director of Altron FinTech In a fast-paced, real-time world, milliseconds matter. You’re in line at a store. You tap your card. Nothing happens. You try again. Still nothing. What you experience as a moment of frustration is for a business, a potential revenue loss, and for the economy, a dent in trust. When payment systems go down, it’s more than a glitch, it’s a disruption to commerce, a hit to reputations, and a breakdown in economic momentum. In today’s always-on digital economy, reliability isn’t a luxury. It’s the standard. For a tech business like Altron…
When, in 1969, the duo opened a sister studio in LA (and another in Sausalito in 1972), they supercharged the original concept, creating a sort of rock hotel, with group Jacuzzis, mirror-ceilinged bedrooms, bedrooms with nicknames including “S&M”, and, in keeping with the era, a variety of illicit drugs intended to keep these paying guests holed up as long as they could. “Mirrors were embedded in the consoles, and the assistants were instructed to make sure there was a clean blade and a straw there every morning,” says Porter. Source link
WASHINGTON, USA – July 22, 2025 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The Governments of Mauritania and Chad today signed funding agreements for the Regional Engagement for Learning and Collaboration in Education (RELANCE) Project, supported by the World Bank and the Federal Republic of Germany, for a total of $137 million. This ambitious project aims to transform education systems in both countries by strengthening sector governance and expanding access to flexible and inclusive learning pathways. It targets more than 850,000 young people, half of whom are girls, while promoting access to learners with special needs. In a regional context of sustained demographic growth, disparities…
Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of heavy metal band Black Sabbath often described as the “Godfather of Heavy Metal”, died on Tuesday at 76, just days after performing a final concert in his hometown of Birmingham. Source link