Lagos. Last night’s premiere of the third season “Sunday Best” on BET, the channel’s gospel talent-search competition, kicked off its search is Lagos, Nigeria. This marked the first time the show went outside of the United States in its search for the next gospel superstar, and the show episode was mix of pleasant surprises and [...]
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Diaspora. On April 7th, at various locations around the city, this year’s African Film Festival will pay homage to 17 African nations as they celebrate 50 years of independence from colonial rule. Nigeria, Somalia and Benin among them, the festival will highlight films, archival footage, and documentaries from the countries, capturing their rise from subjects [...]
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Diaspora. The influence of African culture is swiftly spreading and beginning to take hold in the mainstream. The Music, Fashion and Politics of the continent is becoming influential and relevant in the western cultural landscape. Arise Magazine, has rose to the job of arbiter of all things Africa. Established in 2008, the magazine hit stands [...]
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Ethiopian supermodel, (and ASD African STYLECON) Liya Kebede will star in the indie biopic “Desert Flower” based on the bestselling autobiography of Waris Dirie. Dirie’s story of Somalian refugee to supermodel is incredible; as part of a nomadic tribe in Somalia, she underwent the harsh practice of female genital mutilation, fleeing the country when she [...]
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Sophie Okonedo, NigeriaActress
Barack Hussein Obama, KenyaPresident of the United States of America
Flaviana Matata, TanzaniaModel/Miss Tanzania
Wale, NigeriaRap Artist
Gugulethu Mbatha-Raw, South AfricaActress
