Promoting Africa
Kenyans now have the chance to watch Rafiki, the local film that has made waves around the world, but was initially banned in April by Kenya's film classification board, for "promoting lesbianism". Released in April, the Kenyan Film Classification Board banned the movie, as it was considered as promoting lesbianism, which is illegal in Kenya. "The ban didn't stopped Rafiki’s global…
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The new Marathon World Record is now 2:01:39s. 33-year-old Eliud Kipchoge, widely regarded as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era, ran an official time of 2 hours 1 minutes and 39s, on Sunday during the Berlin Marathon. 2 hours 1 minutes and 39s, That's how long, or little, it took Kenyan super runner Eliud Kipchoge to cover…
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"In Africa, corruption not only saps our economic strength, it is killing us (Odeh Friday). However, many citizens fight to eradicate this phenomenon, but we rarely hear about them. We recently connected with Odeh Friday, Country Director of Accountability Lab Nigeria, through which we discovered a company which contributes to the good happenings around Africa. What is…
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Netflix announced last Friday that it had acquired world rights to Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji’s comic movie “Lionheart”. "The announcement came just a day before the movie was scheduled to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Canada. The comic movie, which is Nnaji’s directorial debut, is the first Netflix original film from Nigeria."…
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In partnership with South African telecommunications company MTN, Tidal, a US based music streaming service founded by Jay Z, has officially started its business in Kampala, Uganda. Tidal, the music and video streaming platform, has since 22 August 2018, launched in its second African country (after South Africa), in partnership with the mobile and fixed…
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The German government has returned to Namibia, 25 skulls of hundreds of indigenous men and women killed during the colonial era, more than a 100 years ago. A Namibian government delegation received the skulls at a church service in Berlin last Wednesday, and on Friday, the remains were taken to the Namibian capital Windhoek where a…
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South African track star Caster Semenya broke the 800m African Championships record last sunday, on the final day of the 21st African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria. With this new record of 1 min 56 seconds and 06 hundredths on the 800, Semenya broke the record held by the Mozambican icon Maria Mutola at the championships…
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