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It was 9 a.m. on May 25, 1998. Borboh Jeff Kamara, 14, was walking to school with classmates when rebels grabbed him, held him down and cut off his fingers, leaving only his thumbs. Fourteen years later, he and other voters go to the polls Saturday to choose a leader they hope will assure continued peace [...]
Listening to Olubankole Wellington aka Banky W, four years ago when he stormed the scene with his first single; a remix of Rihanna’s Umbrella which he styled Ebute metta, you could tell this was a star born to rule. But after ‘Strong Ting’ and ‘Lagos Party’, Banky W completely withdrew from the front burner, allowing [...]
Zonke: This month’s edition of the Tusker Malt Lager 100 club will feature Zonke, a South African musician and songwriter. She will be the star attraction at the November 22 event set for Nairobi Arboretum followed by a Kampala show the following day. Zonke’s life in the limelight began when she started doing sessions with [...]
Like a powerful enigma, EME wonder star Wizkid continues to grow and with a fame-ball that accelerates faster than you’d say “Wiz kid”, this young bundle of talent is far from over with us. Wizkid has just been invited to perform at the BBC 1xtra Live concert on November 12, 2012 at Brixton Academy in [...]
The soldier who led a failed coup attempt last week in Guinea-Bissauwas arrested, the spokesman for the armed forces said Sunday. Pansau Ntchama was arrested Saturday outside the capital, Bissau, said spokesman Dahaba Na Walna. He said that the country’s ex-army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Zamora Induta, was also behind the Oct. 21 coup attempt. Ntchama [...]
May D may or may not know what he has done; but the tides are already heating up and soon, there may be just another messy war between him and Square records barely two months after he was dropped by the label. At Felabration 2012 held recently at the New Afrika Shrine, Akinmayokun May D [...]
The secretary-general of the Darfur student association said that 29 students were arrested by security forces following the strike they held recently in Bakht Alrida university in Aldoam, White Nile, Radio Dabanga has learned. El-Nazir Ismail Haroun, the secretary-general, also said that 18 students who were striking against the payment of tuition fees got injured [...]
Salif Haidara sat drinking tea on the side of the road with other weary bus passengers when a man with a turban and a long beard approached them: Did they want to become holy warriors? The skinny teen had left his poor hometown in the desert with only the yellow tank top, pants and plastic flip-flops [...]
Speaking from his hospital bed, a young man whose hand and foot were amputated this week by the radical Islamic group controlling northern Mali described an agony unlike any other — “a pain that made me forget everything.” Youssoufa Hamidou borrowed the phone of a hospital attendant and braved the guards posted outside his door to call a journalist [...]
The attack that killed four Americans inLibya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S.security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday. Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister, [...]