BY CHARLES KOFI AMOAKU | GHgossip
Nigerian musician, David Adedeji Adeleke, better known in music cycles as Davido has been listed as a cast member in “Coming To America 2″.
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A Nigerian superstar is courting an audience in America and worldwide with her latest album, “Celia.”
By Jon Pareles | The New York Times
Continue reading “Tiwa Savage, Queen of Afrobeats, Makes a New Start in America”
South African actor, John Kani, worked with Chadwick Boseman on blockbuster hits “Captain America: Civil War” and “Black Panter” . He talks about his reaction on the news of the passing of famed American actor.
By CapeTalk
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By Bang Showbiz |
Eritrean-American entertainer, Tiffany Haddish has tested positive for coronavirus. The 40-year-old actress revealed she was working on a movie set when she learned that someone she “wasn’t in direct contact” with contracted the virus, forcing the production to shut down.
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By Entertainment Writer | iol
South African comedian Trevor Noah is reportedly head over heels in love and is ready to take things to the next level with American actress Minka Kelly. According to E! News, the pair have been dating for “several months” and have been living together in New York for a while now.
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South African-born Trevor Noah compares the United States to South Africa under apartheid by saying unemployment rates, angry citizens, and white supremacy are just some of the similarities. The comedian recalls how people were encouraged to snitch on their neighbors.
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By ELIAS LEIGHT | Rolling Stone
Nigerian Star Burna Boy Is Reaching New Streaming Heights in the U.S.
The 29-year-old reaches his highest position so far on the Artists 500 Chart with the release of his fifth studio album, Twice as Tall
By Anita Powell | VOA
“Black is King” stunned Beyonce fans when it dropped suddenly last month. The visual album, which was filmed last year in the U.S., South Africa, West Africa and Europe, is based on music from her album “The Lion King: The Gift” and features an array of African artists, musicians and dancers.
Continue reading “African Fans Bow Down to Beyonce’s ‘Black Is King’”
By Umberto Gonzalez | The Wrap
Netflix has landed the rights to Togo-born British-Nigerian, Femi Fadugba’s debut sci-fi novel “The Upper World” to adapt into a feature film with Academy Award Nominee Daniel Kaluuya attached to star, the company has announced.
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Burna Boy is, well, on fire. As you can imagine, the Nigerian artist felt like worldwide royalty when he was approached by the Queen B — um, yes, Beyoncé — to work with her on last year’s “The Lion King: The Gift” album.
Continue reading “Beyoncé-endorsed Burna Boy makes Afrobeat go international”
BY DANIEL ICAN | GHGossip
After his sad demise in America, the family of Veteran Nigerian reggae musician, Majek Fashek, have revealed that he would be buried in New York, USA.
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By IFEANYI NSOFOR and ESTHER NGUMBI | NPR
There are two kinds of reactions to Beyoncé’s new Black Is King video: lavish praise – and deep criticism. The praise comes from her many fans and from many reviewers. The criticism often comes from Africans.
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By Amanda Parris | CBC
Of all the life-altering and terrifying changes that have occurred in 2020, one of the more fascinating shifts has been happening in celebrity culture. Stars have always been placed on a pedestal, and now that pedestal’s being shaken.
Continue reading “7 African artists share their feelings on the glory — and missteps — of Beyoncé’s Black is King”
Lanre Bakare | The Guardian
Burna Boy might be Africa’s biggest music star, but when he speaks, it’s hard to place exactly where he’s from. Ask him about the US, and a mid-Atlantic lilt comes into play; quiz him on his time in the UK, and he sounds more like Skepta than King Sunny Ade. But when he talks about his beloved Nigeria, the rich tones of the west African country are exposed, and it’s this that has made him arguably the continent’s most sought-after musical export.
Continue reading “Burna Boy: ‘Brothers in the US have been stripped of their knowledge of self’”
Writer/director Shaka King doesn’t anticipate criticisms like those of Kaluuya in “Get Out,” Cynthia Erivo in “Harriet,” or David Oyelowo in “Selma.”
By Ryan Lattanzio | | IndieWire
Continue reading “Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah Director Defends Casting British-Ugandan”
By Aisha Salaudeen | CNN
Mojisola Odegbami did not anticipate that a trip to the United States would land her a part in a visual album by one of the most popular music artists in the world — Beyoncé. The 69-year-old Nigerian grandmother appeared in two music videos in Beyoncé’s highly anticipated “Black Is King” album, which premiered on Disney+.
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By Hannah Yasharoff | USA TODAY
Tamar Braxton publicly thanked her Nigerian boyfriend, David Adefeso, for “saving my life” after announcing she would be parting ways with a television career she said negatively impacted her mental health.
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By | THEWILL
Popular Beninese musician and songwriter of Nigerian descent, Angélique Kidjo, is trending on Twitter as Nigerians debate on who deserves to be called Mama Africa.
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By Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi | Peacefmonline.com
Dancehall musician, Shatta Wale has disclosed that the Akufo-Addo government arranged an all-expense paid trip for him to go to the United States and shoot the music video of ”Already” with American music icon, Beyoncé.
Continue reading “Shatta Wale | Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo paid for video shoot trip with Beyoncé”
By David Lyman | Cincinnati Enquirer
You saw the video, right? The 45-second recording of a kid dancing in the rain? There was something inspiring about it. But would anyone else be interested? Well, here we are, seven weeks after that post, and the video of this kid – his name is Anthony Madu, by the way – has been seen nearly 310,000 times on Instagram alone. And it’s been re-posted on every social media imaginable, where it has been seen by tens of thousands of other people.
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by LAURA PRIOR | Vogue
Ramy Youssef’s show “Ramy’” has become the first ever Muslim American sitcom to be nominated for the Emmy’s. The Egyptian-American co-creator and star of the Hulu series is nominated in the categories of Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series.
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By Marianne Garvey | CNN
Tiffany Haddish is talking about how racism makes her fearful of having children of her own. The comedian had strong feelings about the subject during a recent “What’s in Your Glass?” podcast with NBA star Carmelo Anthony, saying she “would hate to give birth to someone that looks like me, knowing that they’re gonna be hunted or killed.”
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By LCD | PRNewswire
What began as a professional lighting assignment for Christian Epps on Beyonce’s much-anticipated visual album “BLACK IS KING,” turned into an opportunity for Lights, Camera, Diaspora! (LCD!), founded by Epps, to secure positions for 10 trainees from Kangala District, Mpumalanga (northeastern South Africa), to train on a world-class production for Beyonce!
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By McKenna Aiello | E!
Nigerian-America Yvonne Orji earned an Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series nod for her performance as Molly—the character fans loved to hate. Season 4 of the HBO series explored what goes wrong (and what can go right) when a friendship reaches its breaking point. But while we’ll have to wait for Molly and Issa (Issa Rae) to hash out their differences once and for all when Insecure returns for a fifth season, it’s only right that Yvonne gets her time to shine.
Continue reading “Yvonne Orji | Insecure star Dishes On Her ”Special Moment” With Issa Rae After Emmy Nominations”
Egyptian Director Amr Salama has announced that the filming of the series “Ma Waraa al-Tabeea” (The Paranormal) wrapped up on Saturday, July 18.
Publishing a picture of the show’s clapperboard on his official Instagram page, Salama wrote: “In these difficult circumstances, it’s a wrap!”.
Continue reading “Netflix’s first original Egyptian movie is ready”
BY AYA MILLER | Screen Rant
Star Wars fans won’t be seeing British-Nigerian John Boyega in the franchise anytime soon as The Rise of Skywalker star has admitted he’s moving on. Boyega served a prominent role in the sequel trilogy as stormtrooper turned Resistance fighter, Finn.
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By Danielle Paquette | The Washington Post
Grace Bassey is tired of the outdated way African countries are often portrayed on American screens. So when the trailer for Beyoncé’s new visual album emerged on Twitter with imagery Bassey found stereotypical — face paint, feathers, animal skins — the Nigerian college student responded with images of highways, skyscrapers and yachts.
Continue reading “Africans complain about depiction of continent by Beyoncé in video celebrating ‘African tradition.’”
By Josh | Jaitrends
Nigeria’s Burna Boy was celebrated by Naomi Campbell as he won the 2020 BET awards for Best International Act for the second consecutive year, while Zimbabwe’s sha sha won the Best New International Act award
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By SAMANTHA AGATE | Talent Recap
America’s Got Talent has always had impressive contortion acts but the Bonebreakers are truly unlike any other. The group consists of four men from Conakry, Guinea in West Africa and they came all the way to ‘AGT’ to show off their tremendous talents whether it’s bending, twisting and having your stomach churning with the amazing things their bodies can do.
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By Sam Spiller | iol
Imagine a world where witches took up arms in service of their country. That is the premise of the new fantasy TV series Motherland: Fort Salem. South African-born actress Jessica Sutton plays witch cadet Tally Craven. She stars alongside Taylor Hickson and Ashley Nicole Williams.
Continue reading “Jessica Sutton: South African actress says playing the role of a witch in Fantasy series is her ‘dream job’”
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