On June 1, 2022, Kim Kardashian rebranded her skincare product, KKW Beauty as SKKN by Kim. The newly launched brand features the star’s initials but she has been accused of stealing the name from Lori Harvey’s skincare company, SKN. After rebranding her skincare product, fans noted the identical name and packaging to Lori Harvey’s SKN by LH and took to Twitter to call out the reality star, Binnews reports. “Did Kim Kardashian just use Lori Harvey’s strategy for a skincare brand, or is it just me?,” a fan quarried while another fan said “Uh sounds close to SKN by Lori…
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MY Train Experience And The Review At Mobolaji Johnson Train Station To Ibadan Station Moniya. Traveling on a train from Lagos to Ibadan was my first experience using a train. I remember sometime last year when I planned traveling to ibadan by train but it didn’t work out because I was very late. But this time around I have to move very early to catch up with the train on time. I never have anything to do at ibadan rather than just to explore the inside train to and fro. From oyinbo, you take a bus going to alapomeji bus…
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has asked the Nigeria Football Federation to hold election into its Executive Committee in September. The PUNCH gathered that the tenure of the NFF’s current administration ends in September. The sports minister, Sunday Dare, quoted the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as giving the directive in a letter addressed to the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick. Buhari was also quoted as directing that “the instrument of football administration in the country, the NFF Statutes be amended to include other stakeholders”, who had hitherto been disenfranchised, or denied equal representation…
Mabel Fairbanks was denied the chance to become a figure skating champion because of racism. She never made it to the Olympics but she trained and mentored the first skaters of color who did when she became a coach. She was given minor roles when she performed in ice shows so she made sure that Black skaters she coached became members of well-known figure skating clubs and had the opportunities to excel in the sport. Among the skaters she mentored were the famous Debi Thomas, a two-time U.S. champion who won the 1986 world title and 1988 Olympic bronze medal,…
Bo Rangers have a chance to rub shoulders with Africa’s top sides next seasonBo Rangers will play for pride rather than financial gain when they take part in the African Champions League for the first time, says the club’s executive chairman Babadi Kamara.The side from the south of the country were officially crowned champions of Sierra Leone for the first time in their history on the last Sunday in May.The trophy presentation came eight days after Bo Rangers defeated FC Johansen 2-1 to secure the title with two games to spare.They became the second team from outside the capital Freetown…
The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms. Still from This is National Wake. The history of South African music under apartheid can roughly be divided into two categories. The first, and arguably the best documented, is that associated with the exile Jazz diaspora—think Miriam Makeba at the UN and Hugh Masekela performing at London’s anti-apartheid rallies. The second is of those musicians who remained in the country and carved out musical spaces and subcultures in a context of police harassment, surveillance,…
Africa is one of the best-positioned regions to benefit from the global adoption of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana in the coming decade. Africa’s young population 1.4 billion persons, about 17% of the global population, will be the fastest-growing region in the world over the next two decades. Young Africans are more connected to the global economy than ever thanks to high-speed internet and computers. Africans have taken an interest in cryptocurrencies as a way to send and receive payments to friends and relatives globally without having to rely on centralized financial institutions. African cryptocurrency usage grew by…
Focus of many African athletics-lovers will be on Ivory Coast speedster, Marie-Josee Ta Lou, as she takes on top stars like Mujinga Kambundji, Dafne Schippers and three-time Olympic champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, at the 2022 Diamond League Meeting today in French capital, Paris. The seventh leg of the 2022 Diamond League series will be on SuperSport Variety 3 (DStv channel) and SuperSport Select 1 (GOtv channel 33). The Meeting de Paris at Stade Sebastien Charlety will also feature a stacked Men’s Pole Vault competition, featuring Sam Kendricks, Renuad Lavillenie and Thiago Braz, as well as local favourites Quentin Bigot and Alexandra…
Martin Magidi focusses on small towns as research sites in this paper in The Southern Africa Geographical Journal. ABSTRACT The paper deviates from the general trend to focus on big cities as research sites. It explores the impacts of deindustrialization on urban livelihoods in Norton – a small town west of Harare using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to unpack how deindustrialization compromised livelihood assets and outcomes in Norton. Data were collected using triangulation of methods, which comprised interviews and field observations. Findings showed that key industries collapsed, leading to massive job losses, and job-related benefits. Findings further point to…
Awuku Darko Samuel 17/06/22 at 11:10 am by admin Awuku Darko Samuel About:Born in 1997, Awuku Darko Samuel is a conceptual photographer from Suhum, Ghana. He Began studying visual arts when he was in Senior High school, which he graduated from in 2017. He borrowed smartphones from friends to take photos until he was gifted with his own. He began to explore photography and various mediums in oder to create visual story telling methods. Though he has experience with many different mediums, such as African print making, leatherwork and ceramics, he prefers due to…