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Winds of Change – the African new wave

Ade Solanke

 

It’s made Afrobeats a global sensation and Nollywood the second largest film business in the world. Now the vitality and verve of Nigerian popular culture is set to burst onto the English cultural scene.

One day in August a friend tweeted, ‘D’Banj is playing on EastEnders,’ and I had to stand still for a moment to process the news. An African song on a British soap about the East End but with no African characters? What the Dickens?!

"From the god of war to the God of Love"

 

Beyoncé and Jay-Z hospital complaint dismissed

State health officials on Wednesday dismissed complaints that patients in a hospital neonatal unit were mistreated while Beyoncé was there giving birth to her and Jay-Z's daughter.

WHO wants Nigeria, others to tackle malaria

ALTHOUGH malaria mortality rate is falling in Africa and around the world, there is need to intensify anti-malaria efforts in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali, all of which account for 60 per cent of the global malaria burden, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).