“I am Somali and I made this film for Somali people to watch a film in their mother tongue without needing subtitles,” says film director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed. Ahmed made his feature debut with The Gravedigger’s Wife, and after premiering in May at the Cannes film festival’s Critics’ Week, it made headlines as the first film from Somalia to be put forward for the Oscars.“As a film-maker, I felt a sense of responsibility to tell the story of how I view my Somali community and to tell this story with dignity, tenderness and compassion – all the qualities I’ve been…
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Issued on: 14/10/2021 – 23:37Modified: 14/10/2021 – 23:44 In tonight’s edition: Five mixed-race women taken from their mothers in DR Congo as children have gone to court, suing Belgium for crimes against humanity. The trial is the first of its kind. Around 15,000 biracial children were forcibly separated from their Black mothers in the former Belgian colonies of DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. They were called children of sin and dumped in orphanages by the state. Also, there’s shock and sadness over the violent death of one of Kenya’s brightest sports stars. Police are still searching for the husband of Olympic athlete Agnes Tirop…
Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, Nana Ampadu, died on September 28, 2021. In this interview from 2007, historian Jennifer Hart talks with him about the music that made him famous. Nana Kwame Ampadu. Image via Twitter. On June 21, 2007, I arrived at a compound house in La Paz, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. A relatively modest house, it was the home to Nana Ampadu, international recording artist and highlife legend, who died last week. As the Ghanaian guitarist Kyekyeku recounted in an Instagram memorial, “3 decades ago Nana Ampadu declared that he wanted to make his music his ‘own way’…
Photography by: Abdullahi Earthy tones have always been a safe place for me when it comes to picking outfits you’d always find me checking out the Browns, whites, greys and all things nude ish. I’m pretty sure you’ve noticed this to haven’t you?Summer as a vibe, it’s that time where we all get to show off that pop of color in every ensemble whether it’s casual or completely dress down looks for beach parties but here’s an alternative to this right here, yes the earthy tones definitely work perfectly well for summer too and I’m loving how I look in…
Two decades after South African activists tackled the global pharmaceutical industry and their own government for limiting access to medicines, the country’s educators are waging a similar battle to improve its standards of learning.Just as patents on life-saving antiretroviral medicines restricted treatment for South Africa’s rising number of HIV patients, so copyright protections on high-quality children’s books present a barrier to improving literacy in the next generation, according to Nic Spaull, associate professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. Like good but cheap off-patent generic medicines, “we need ‘generic books’ that de-link cost from quality”, Spaull argues. “The Gruffalo and Winnie-the-Pooh…
Tributes have been pouring in for Kenya’s Agnes Tirop, who was found dead on Wednesday, with her former athletics captain Julius Yego among those leading the way. The 25-year-old was found stabbed to death at her home, with police naming her husband as a suspect. When Tirop, who finished fourth in this year’s Olympic 5,000m final, won 10,000m bronze at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, Yego was her team captain. “She was an amazing young girl who was really working hard to be one of the top athletes in the world,” Yego told the BBC World Service’s Newsday programme. “She…
Have you wanted to go mountain climbing but cannot fight your climbing fears? Guess what, it’s not as hard as it sounds! The famed Mount Kilimanjaro stands in the beautiful lands of Tanzania, East Africa. Very well known as the highest peak in Africa, Kilimanjaro is not too far from the Kenyan border. Thousands of tourists fly in every year to get to Uhuru Peak.Climbing Kilimanjaro has been on your bucket list for a very long time. You finally get the perfect opportunity to chase your dreams, the time has come. Everything is prearranged, you plan for weeks and months…
According to the country’s athletics body, Tirop was found dead at her home in Iten, after she was “allegedly stabbed.” Local reports state Tirop was found dead with stab wounds in her abdomen. Athletics Kenya said it was “still working to unearth more details surrounding her demise.”Tirop’s agent — Gianni Demadonna — confirmed her passing by e-mail to CNN. Athletics Kenya were not immediately available for further comment. The 25-year-old won bronze medals in the 10,000m at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships and finished 4th in the 5,000m at the Tokyo Games. Last month, Tirop made history by taking…
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Key Findings Tagwirei has earned at least $100 million in fees from a partnership with Swiss-based Trafigura. Together, they have profited extensively by dominating Zimbabwe’s fuel market since 2013. Trafigura quietly extended $1 billion in loans to the Zimbabwean government, at exorbitant interest rates. As controversy grew, Tagwirei moved his business network offshore to Mauritius, where he secured a new near-monopoly fuel deal with the government. He is still active in mining and fuel deals in Zimbabwe. Government officials appear on key company records and Tagwirei’s own correspondence, indicating that there might be more powerful people behind the network When…