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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Golden Globes: All the winners

Golden Globes: All the winners

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
JILL SERJEANT THE king won big at the Golden Globes and his queen made an emotional and powerful speech. The late Chadwick Boseman, known for his role as the "King of Wakanda", was today crowned Best Actor in a motion picture drama at the 78th annual Golden Globes for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Boseman died in August last year after a battle with cancer. His wife, Taylor Simone, accepted the award on his behalf. Holding back tears, she said: "He would thank God. He would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices. He would say…
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Mar
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Elsa Majimbo launches a children’s book

Elsa Majimbo launches a children’s book

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
MPHO RANTAO EVERYONE’S favourite social comedienne is now a published author.  Picture: Instagram/majimb.o Elsa Majimbo announced online that she had created a children’s alphabet book with Italian fashion house, Valentino, answering the anticipated question of what Majimbo and Valentino had been cooking since they announced their collaboration. In a chic Instagram video, the camera zooms in on Majimbo holding her new book titled ‘The Alphabet for Kids and Adults’, adding that the published book is another sign of her dreams coming true.  Elsa Majimbo wrote that the video was her ‘entry into high fashion’ and thanked Valentino for believing in…
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Mar
21
2021
By The African Mirror
With traditional fabrics, Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic

With traditional fabrics, Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
NNEKA CHILE  WEAVING contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday. His material of choice is Aso-oke, a hand-woven cloth indigenous to the Yoruba people and historically used on special occasions. Binitie, who cut his teeth as a design assistant with Stella McCartney in 2005, began using the fabric in 2017, and he infuses the yellow dresses that are his signature creations with cottons and silks to give them a post-modern feel. "We started to use contemporary African art and culture within…
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Mar
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Widower turned sleuth reflects on old age in Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary

Widower turned sleuth reflects on old age in Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary

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LUCILA SIGAL  AN 83-year-old widower on a mission to investigate potential abuse at a nursing home reveals telling lessons about the trials of growing old in Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi's Oscar-nominated documentary "The Mole Agent." Although the story rings like the plot of a fiction film, the drama that unfolds is real. The tender and touching feature film, nominated for best documentary, is the only Latin American nominated for an Academy Award. With equal doses of humor and film noir, the 90-minute documentary tells the story of Sergio Chamy, a confounded but enthusiastic sleuth who barely knows how to handle…
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Mar
20
2021
By The African Mirror
No Zoom for intimate 2021 Oscars

No Zoom for intimate 2021 Oscars

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THE Oscars ceremony in April will be an intimate, in-person gathering, held without Cand limited to nominees, presenters and their guests, the producers said on Thursday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the show to hand out the highest honors in the movie industry will be held both at the Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and the traditional home of the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Everyone will be tested, and there will be a COVID-19 safety team on site throughout the evening on April 25. "There will not be an option to Zoom in for the…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Kanye West is the richest black man in America

Kanye West is the richest black man in America

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER RAPPER Kanye West has officially joined the billionaire boys club.  According to Forbes magazine, West is now worth $6.6-billion, largely due to profits from his fashion brand Yeezy, and his multiple collaborations with Adidas and Gap. His new net worth makes him the richest black person in America and in the country’s history.  The rapper’s sneaker and apparel business Yeezy recently entered a combined partnership with Adidas AG and Gap Inc., increasing the value of the brand between $3.2-billion and $4.7-billion by UBS Group AG.  The 43 year-old’s new net worth is significantly higher than what was…
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Mar
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Nadia Nakai and Khanyi Mbau joins search for Africa’s next trender

Nadia Nakai and Khanyi Mbau joins search for Africa’s next trender

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MPHO RANTAO SOUTH African rapper Nadia Nakai and media personality Khanyi Mbau have been named as two-thirds of a judging panel for a new African show that’s looking for the continent’s next Online sensation. Called ‘The Next Big Trender’, the show will consist of five up and coming African stars completing a set of tasks that will be by a panel that consists of Nakai, Mbau and Nigerian comedian Olalekan “Lekan” Olaleye. The show will be aired on new channel Honey, on Dstv channel 173.  Khanyi Mbau and Lekan Olaleye join the judging panel. Picture: Instagram The five contestants are…
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Nov
25
2025
By JOVIAL RANTAO
A son returns home: Jimmy Cliff and Africa’s reggae revolution

A son returns home: Jimmy Cliff and Africa’s reggae revolution

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
WHEN the news reached us that Jimmy Cliff had crossed his final river at age 81, something more than a musician departed - a bridge between Africa and her scattered children grew quieter. The man who sang "Many Rivers to Cross" with such aching beauty had finally reached the other shore, leaving behind a legacy that transformed not just music but consciousness itself across our vast continent. From the shanties of Soweto to the bustling streets of Lagos, from the highlands of Addis Ababa to the coasts of Mombasa, Jimmy Cliff's voice carried a message that Africans understood in their…
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Mar
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Danish director says making Oscar-nominated ‘Another Round’ kept him sane after daughter’s death

Danish director says making Oscar-nominated ‘Another Round’ kept him sane after daughter’s death

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HANNA RANTALA THOMAS Vinterberg was four days into shooting 'Another Round', which has just earned him an Oscar nomination for best director when his daughter Ida, who was due to act in the movie, died in a car accident. The Danish director says that nomination, plus another for best international feature film, honour 19-year old Ida's memory. Much of the movie, which follows a group of teachers who make a pact to consume a small amount of alcohol each day in the hope it will improve the quality of their lives, was filmed in Ida's former high school, with scenes…
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Mar
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Burna Boy and Wizkid scoop Grammy Awards

Burna Boy and Wizkid scoop Grammy Awards

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NIGERIAN superstar Burna has won his first career Grammay Award at a ceremony marked by historic feet by women and the Blue Ivy, the youngest winner at 9. Burna Boy won the Grammy Award for the Best Global Music Album for his album Twice as Tall. In an acceptance speech given in English and Yoruba, Burna Boy described the achievement as a big win for his generation of Africans all over the world.  “Africa is in the house. This is a big win for my generation of Africans all over the world. And this should be a lesson to every…
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