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.”
Coming to Kenya: Freedom fighters demand King Charles apologises for crimes against humanity
More than 10,000 people died in the Mau Mau uprising, a figure some historians claim is a low estimate. Tens of thousands of Kenyans – many with no links to the Mau Mau – endured harrowing treatment including torture and appalling sexual mutilation at the hands of security forces.
London court finds woman guilty of abetting genital mutilation of a girl in Kenya 17 years later
Mr Justice Bryan thanked jurors for sitting on a case which they may have found “emotional”. He granted Noor conditional bail ahead of her sentencing at the same court on December 20.
Exchange rates: US dollar exerts pressure on Kenyan, Ugandan and Zambian currencies
Nigeria’s naira is seen trading around its current levels on the official market in the coming week, after the finance minister said the government was expecting $10 billion of inflows to ease dollar shortages.
South Africa: Apprehension spikes that creation of foreign, domestic spy services will feed corruption
Critics point to the dismal failure of present intelligence structures to vet even a high-profile person such as Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of Eskom who was forced to deploy private intelligence capacity to fight rampant corruption and theft at the National Key Point utility.
