From country music to pop music icon: Transition of Taylor Swift’s 2014 nostalgia to 2023 reality
Taylor Swift’s reimagined 1989 is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era – revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance. Released in 2014 and named for her birth year, the original “1989” signified a sonic rebirth. Swift had shed the Nashville country roots...
Take-it-leave-it: Somalia’s ‘IDP economy’ thrives by ruthless clan networks imposing tax on aid
People displaced to Mogadishu, the capital, predominantly come from within the Digil and Mirifle clan family, the Somali Bantu community, and other smaller minority communities – all of whom are structurally marginalised in Somalia.
Why African universities need interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary movement
Africa and Uganda must join the genuine knowledge integration movement. If not we shall fall by the wayside of the movement and have no influence on the mushrooming revolution in higher education. We shall continue to entrench archaic academic programmes and produce graduates we do not need in this World Wide Web dominated millennium.
Kenya: Stellantis invest $1.58 billion to acquire 20 per cent shares in Leapmotor to bolster latter’s EV business
Leapmotor was the world’s first pure-play EV company to implement Cell-to-Chassis technology on a largescale, and its ‘Four-Leaf Clover’ Leap 3.0 central-controlled new electric and electronic architecture achieves seamless and efficient collaboration within the core components of smart EVs. Its unique vertical integration model maximizes scalability, enabling Leapmotor to quickly respond to customer needs.
Israel vows to ‘obliterate’ Hamas as Palestinians appeal to UN to prevail on Tel Aviv to ‘stop the bombs’
Israel’s Erdan said the country’s action has nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Palestinian question. “This is not a war with the Palestinians. Israel is at war with the genocidal Jihadist Hamas terror organisation,” he said.
US judge orders new congressional map in Georgia, citing harm to Black voters
Despite “great strides” in providing Black voters more opportunities over the decades, Jones wrote, “the political process is not equally open to Black voters.”
