Category: Lifestyle

Kenneth Gyang isn’t your regular filmmaker. The award-winning director of the 2013 flick, Confusion Na Wa also directed the EbonyLife-produced Netflix film, Oloture. He shared his odyssey behind the camera with YUSUFF ADEBAYO in this interview. Excerpts… Oloture is gritty to watch. How did you manage to not tone down the momentousness of the film with a couple of comic… Read More

African Voices, the magazine programme of the Cable News Network (CNN) bankrolled by telecommunications company, Globacom, this week celebrates the musical and philanthropic accomplishments of Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (aka Akon). Viewers can hook up to CNN Channel 40 on the DSTV from Saturday at 6.30am, while a repeat airs again on Saturday 9.30am with further repeats on Sunday… Read More

Nigerian Afro-Cyborg singer, songwriter and producer, Bright Ukpabi, popularly known as Mr. Dutch has welcomed a bouncing baby boy with his second baby mama, a South African chef and actress named Sunell Hughes. The baby was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on November 2, 2020. The excited father announced the news in a chat with Showtime Bonus. “ My king… Read More

The title of Burna Boy’s mournful but impassioned new song “20 10 20” refers to the date of the deadly events last month in the suburb of Lekki in Nigeria, when security forces opened fire on a crowd peacefully protesting state police brutality by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as SARS. Like much of his excellent recent album… Read More

When the Recording Academy announced the renaming of the Grammy  ‘Best World Music‘ album category to ‘Best Global Music‘ album, to avoid “connotations of colonialism“, it was a clear indication that the award platform was still struggling to embrace music from regions that were colonised in the 19th and 20th century; particularly Africa. If any region deserves several categories for its brand… Read More

Kenyan music startup Mdundo saw its monthly active users increase by 27 per cent to 6.4 million in September from five million in June, putting it on track hit the nine million figure by the middle of next year. Launched in 2013, Mdundo provides access to all the continent’s favourite music to over five million monthly active users in 15… Read More

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