Tag: African

Tyla MTV VMAs Win: Controversy Over African Music Identity Unfolds

Tyla won the Best Afrobeats award at the MTV VMAs 2024 for her hit song “Water.” Her acceptance speech highlighted the need for recognizing the diversity of…

Former South African Minister Pravin Gordhan Dies at 75

Pravin Gordhan, who held three positions in South Africa’s cabinet and won plaudits for standing up to Jacob Zuma during his scandal-marred presidency, has died. He was 75….

Combating Eurocentrism and Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship

the family of the ‘posts’ (postmodernism, poststructuralism/deconstruction, postcolonialism and posthumanism) may not be an endangered family in Africa but it confronts clenched fists among a detachment of African intellectuals….

Hounded South African beauty queen wins Nigeria contest

After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen of a totally different…

Russia v. Ukraine – in an African Desert

EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — the column of Malian government soldiers and Russian mercenaries from the former Wagner Group was advancing through a shallow valley in the southern Sahara desert…

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