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Asake, the breakout pop star from Nigeria who owned 2022

Apr 13, 2023 02:00PM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

His rise to global reckoning was sealed by sold out shows in Atlanta and London and a collaboration with Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage on the hit Loaded.

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Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

Apr 13, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

The fact that Disney’s portrayal of a nonwhite mermaid is controversial is due to 150 years of whitewashing.

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Chika Jones: A Nigerian writer creating awareness of societal issues through his poetry

Apr 12, 2023 04:00PM ● By Kufre N

In an exclusive interview with FunTimes, Jones opens up about what inspires his creativity and how poetry contributes to storytelling, which is the base of cultures.

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Alexander Isak, the Afro-Swedish soccer player that has taken the world by storm

Apr 12, 2023 12:00PM ● By Jerrywright Ukwu

Alexander Isak is the child of African refugees. His parents fled war-torn Eritrea before he was born in Solna, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.

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Basquiat: A multidisciplinary artist who denounced violence against African Americans

Apr 12, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

At the time of the Black Lives Matter movement, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequalities and the lack of representation of racialized people in the media, but also the violence suffered by African Americans.

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Down to Earth

Apr 11, 2023 02:00PM ● By FunTimes Staff

April is Latin for aperio, meaning to open or bud, and plants certainly bud during April, the month of renewal.

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Calm Down: how a Nigerian singer and a Cameroonian dancer inspired a powerful protest in Iran

Apr 11, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

A winning combination of music, movement and technology can make dance routines go viral.

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As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word 'dope' means to him

Apr 09, 2023 02:00PM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Hip-hop’s early luminaries transformed the word’s original meanings, using it as a synonym for cool.

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Beyoncé is going on a world tour. Why she shouldn't ignore Africa

Apr 08, 2023 02:00PM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Africa is almost always excluded from major world tours organised by global record labels. To be clear, it’s not just Beyoncé.

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Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light

Apr 08, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

The immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was shocked disbelief. The multiple award-winning South African jazz vocalist, composer and teacher was only 50.

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