Booker Prize–winning Nigerian-British author Ben Okri was in Kolkata to attend the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, where his latest novel, The Age of Magic, was launched. An engaged conversation ensued; many issues central to Okri’s writing came... Read More
African Asylum Seekers Walk The Runway At Florence Fashion Show
At one of the fashion shows in Florence’s Pitti Immagine Uomo schedule last week, there was some very meaningful casting behind the model roster.Three of the models on the Generation Africa catwalk were asylum seekers from Mali and Gambia. Asylum... Read More
Must Watch: Melissa’s “9 Things I Would Like to Tell to Every Teenage Girl” Spoken Word Video That Has Gone Viral
I shouted yes! Yes!! Yes!!! all through this video. If you watch this without sharing to every woman out there then you are the problem we have in the world. I choose to share. “The world is trying to kill each and every one of you and if you do... Read More
Goodluck Jonathan Honoured In U.S. By Luther King’s SCLC
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was on Thursday honoured by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.He was awarded the Presidential Award in recognition of his “leadership in advancing human rights, social justice and the... Read More
Happenings Debuts Online Radio
A new year brings new and exciting opportunities as Happenings Media (www.happenings.com.ng) is set for the launch of its online radio – HAPPENINGS RADIO. Come February 2016, Happenings Radio will kick off an intense virtual schedule that will... Read More
Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo Wins EPL Player Of The Month Award
Nigerian striker, Odion Ighalo, has seen off stiff competition from the duo of Mesut Ozil and Dele Alli to win his first Premier League Player of the Month Award.Ighalo, who has been nominated repeatedly in the past, finally got the morale boosting... Read More
Nigerian Beats Over 8,000 Natives To Emerge Top 17 In Indian Music Reality Show
Premium Times reports that a Nigerian student, Ado Abdulkadir, is making wave in India after beating thousands of natives in a superhit Indian music reality show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.Mr. Abdulkadir, an indigene of Kano State, held spectators in awe as he... Read More
Short Film: Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Film Titled ‘God Is Gangsta’
Kendrick Lamar has shared a new 7-minute short film titled God Is Gangsta, featuring To Pimp a Butterfly tracks “u” and “For Sale? (Interlude)”. The “u” segment, directed by Jack Begert, features Lamar heavily... Read More
UNL Organization Sends 1,750 Books And Journals To African libraries
A sister organization of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s literary journal Prarie Schooner has sent nearly 1,750 books and journals to five different poetry libraries in Africa. Selected libraries located in Gambia, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya and... Read More