Jay Z and Beyonce looked more enamored than most times in the past as they went to Solange’s wedding in New Orleans last weekend. The couple who have been hitched for a long time and have been as one for over a decade couldn’t appear to keep their distant at one another as they celebrated the night away at the wedding merriment.
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Nigerians take on NTA after they ask what their most loved program on the station is. But why are Nigerians like this? Lol. Don’t you all ever have anything great to say?…nta took to their Twitter handle at the beginning of today to ask what people’s most loved program on their station is…and the answers are humorous.
Nigerian stars including Ebube Nwagbo, Zack Orji, Desmond Elliot, Uti Nwachukwu, Alexx Ekubo, IK Ogbonna, Denrele Edun and more displayed fashioner Yomi’s Casual’s new accumulation called ‘The Fantastic Man’…
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Wyclef &Bovi performing at Rhythm Unplugged 2013. Rhythm Unplugged is West Africa’s Number One Music and Comedy concert and will be celebrating its 10 Year anniversary December 19th, 2014.
A Video of a Kenyan lady being stripped exposed by men on a road in Nairobi a week ago for dressing “improperly” has started shock in the nation prompting a few dissents.
A few ladies, including celebs and government officials took to the avenues of Kenya today to dissent the provocation calling for it to be illicit and asking government to capture the men who featured in the video stripping the lady bare.
The dissenters have additionally begun a battle called #mydressmychoice, saying disrobing a lady in broad daylight is lewd behavior. See photographs from the dissent bellow.
Simply few days after the arrival of his collection, YBNL’s Olamide catches up they buildup by dropping the feature to one of the tracks, “Skelemba”, in which he emphasizes music heavyweight, Don Jazzy. With the Mavins supervisor adding his own particular mystical touch to the vocals of the tune, Olamide likewise gets Unlimited L.A as chief for the video. Described by move scenes portraying African outfits and society, the feature does huge equity to the tune itself.
Reggae Legend, Music Minister, and a standout amongst the most regarded men in Nigerian music today, in the individual of BUCHI, discharges his first feature titled ‘KE HOSSANA’ from the New Album titled “I SEE”, which is now in the city, real sound stockists, and on the itunes advanced stage for procurement.
The feature is a basic and masterful understanding of a lovely expressive substance that talks through the heart of a man with a conviction and an appreciative heart towards God.
The feature which was appropriately deciphered, shot and regulated by Mr Oluyinka Davids (ifocus Pictures), characteristics associates and companions, and most will be charmingly astounded by the blast of shades and delightful visual elucidations.
Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is? Most people haven’t heard of him.
But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.
His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.
He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his business transactions as “philanthropic” and “scientific” efforts under the banner of the International African Society. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.
Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Making overtly racist remarks is (sometimes) frowned upon in polite society, but it’s quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.
Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. It’s 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.
When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.
There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking whose interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.
You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture don’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.
Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But that doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.
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A 70-year-old man, Adebola Oyewole Asiwaju, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly attempting to fraudulently sell the shares of one Olalere Sunday Oladosu.
To perfect the scam, the suspect allegedly forged documents and opened a bank account in a new generation bank, with the assumed name of “Olalere Sunday Oladosu”.
Then, he proceeded to instruct Marina Securities, a brokerage, to dispose of 1.7million units of Zenith Bank shares valued at N42million and remit the proceeds to the account he opened with the new generation bank.
The lid on the scam was lifted when a routine check by staff of Marina Securities revealed some discrepancies in the documents presented by the suspect and the ones the genuine owner of the shares had filed with the defunct Intercontinental Securities Limited.
Consequently, the suspect was arrested by the Nigeria Police, and later handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution.
The suspect is alleged to be neck deep in stealing shares of unsuspecting investors and selling them for a commission. He is believed to work for a syndicate and receives 10 percent of the proceeds of any “business” that sails through. His accomplices are still at large. Other names that Asiwaju has used in fraudulent shares sale include, Babajide Odunso and Chief Bolaji Carew. The suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation in concluded.
The sweet actress wore this look for an interview with a radio station this afternoon.
Many individuals have been killed today in a town called Alakio in Nasarawa state by Fulani Herdsmen.
The Herdsmen assaulted the group in the early hours of today with weapons and blades as they rested. As per individuals discussing it on Twitter, the Herdsmen are as of now assaulting the town…and numerous occupants have fled their homes for wellbeing.
