NYAFF Film Review: Mama Africa
This week emerging film critic, Zeba Blay, critiques a selection of films from NYAFF’s 19th annual film festival. Below, her review of Mama Africa, a tour de force about the life of singer, Miriam Makeba. New York – Mama Africa, the new documentary by Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki, has launched the 19th Annual African Film [...]
New York – For it’s nineteenth annual edition, the New York Africa Film Festival (in conjunction with the Lincoln Center Film Society) has chosen a poignant theme: homecoming. Under this umbrella, it shelters a solid line up of about a dozen films. The films take us on a journey from South Africa where [...]
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The beautiful and talented Lira EDITOR’S NOTE: In case you missed this interview with Lira, we decided to re-publish! If you don’t know Lira, consider yourself introduced. A mega-talent and platinum-selling success in Africa for many years, now the award-winning songstress is ready to make her way into the hearts and minds of stateside music [...]
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New Edition is going to Nigeria! R28 Events has wooed the superstar R&B group to perform in Lagos, during the Arise Magazine Fashion Week festivites at that. “I am excited to go to Nigeria and I intend to give them a great performance, we are going to have fun in the motherland,” said Bobby Brown. [...]
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Iconic Somali supermodel, Iman is being profiled along with 29 other women in the new book “Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World” by Crystal McCrary. Here’s some of what she had to say about what being a black model was about when she started: “When I came on the scene, the top model [...]
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The third installment of the animated Kirikou adventures is set to hit theaters in France next year and will be featured in stereoscopic 3-D! Entitled “Kirikou and the Men and Women”, following up 2005′s “Kirikou and the Wild Beasts.” Based on African folk tales about a brave young boy who saves his village from an [...]
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The long awaited P-Square and Akon collabo is here! “Chop My Money” also features May D and was shot in Atlanta. Though already superstars in Africa, Akon is officially introducing the boys to the United States through his Konvict Music imprint (though Africans in the diaspora are already more than clued in!). D-Banj has officially [...]
Continue reading …Africa Style Daily Partners with Face2FaceAfrica to Launch Print Publication
February 27, 2012 No Comment
WWW – Face2FaceAfrica, the premier entertainment publication for the continent, has announced the launch of their print publication. Their magazine will cover a spectrum of topics from politics to business to culture to style. According to the founders of the site, it also serves a further purpose: Re-branding Africa globally. Aiding them in this undertaking [...]
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We know, we know! We can’t stop talking about Idris Elba — but guess what, not only is the British actor nice to look at, he’s always newsworthy! It has just been announced that he will be starring in an upcoming Nelson Mandela biopic. Congratulations to Idris on the role of a lifetime! [Telegraph U.K.] [...]
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The official designer line-up for the higly anticipated Arise Magazine Fashion Week has been announced! The 2nd annual fashion event will be held in Lagos again, and this time around will feature 77 designers. Among them will be favorites such as Jewel by Lisa and Mataano, as well as tons of up-and-comers representing from all [...]
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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
