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Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan tests positive for coronavirus

Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan tests positive for coronavirus

BOLLYWOOD actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter have tested positive for the new coronavirus, a day after her father-in-law and top Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and her husband and actor Abhishek said they were infected with the virus. Maharastra state health minister Rajesh Tope said in a tweet Aishwarya and her daughter had tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. It was not clear whether they had been admitted to hospital, as Amitabh and Abhishek were on Saturday when they said they had mild symptoms. - Thomson Reuters Foundation. #AishwaryaRaiBachchan and #Aaradhya also test positive for #Covid19 after…
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Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith reveals she DID have a relationship with August Alsina

Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith reveals she DID have a relationship with August Alsina

ACTRESS Jada Pinket -Smith has confessed to a romantic relationship with singer August Alsina, after first denying it. However, Jada revealed that the affair happened while she and husband Wil Smith were on a temporary separation. The confession came during the actress Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk to discuss Alsina's allegations they had a romance. She was joined by Will for the bombshell episode. The couple has two children Jaden (21) and Willow (19). Jada 48) explained that she had met August (27), who was really sick, through their son Jaden. She and Will then spoke about the time…
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Rapper AKA tests positive for COVID-19

Rapper AKA tests positive for COVID-19

STAFF REPORTER SOUTH Africa’s multi award winning rapper AKA  has tested positive for COVID-19. AKA joints a list of South African celebrities and high profile politicians who have tested positive for the deadly virus. The rapper, whose real name is Jarryd Forbes, has gone into self-isolation and would use the time to document his experience. He said he had made his COVID-19 results public in an attempt to create awareness around the virus and caution citizens to be more careful in their daily interactions with others. “AKA pleaded with everyone to adhere to social distancing guidelines, to wear masks and…
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Big search for ‘Glee’ actress Naya Rivera, feared dead

Big search for ‘Glee’ actress Naya Rivera, feared dead

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER https://twitter.com/VENTURASHERIFF/status/1281100742384685057 FANS of former “Glee” actress Naya Rivera, who is feared dead after a swimming accident,  have taken to social media to express their shock and anxiety.    The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in California had confirmed that they were searching for Rivera, 33,  in Lake Piru after a swimming accident. Lake Piru is approximately 90 kilometers northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The American news station KNBC reported that Rivera had rented a pontoon boat at the Lake Piru reservoir yesterday for her and her four-year old son. The boy was found alone without a life vest on…
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‘Black Lives Matter’ movement stirs Ghanaian artist in COVID-19 limbo

‘Black Lives Matter’ movement stirs Ghanaian artist in COVID-19 limbo

A TEAR slipped down the cheek of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku as she recalled how the global Black Lives Matter had kindled her pain and anger while she was stranded away from home due to coronavirus lockdowns. After Senegal closed its borders in March, the internationally renowned visual artist had no option but to remain at a residency in Dakar, where she had been creating large textile collages to explore her self-image after a cancer diagnosis. When the death of George Floyd in U.S. police custody sparked a global reckoning over racial injustice and oppression, the 44-year-old stitched a new…
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Sensible and chic: the $185 luxury face mask from Belgium

Sensible and chic: the $185 luxury face mask from Belgium

TAKE  a face mask, adorn it with jewels or attach it to a long, flowing neck scarf. What have you got? A pandemic precaution, yes, but also a luxury fashion statement that can cost anywhere from 75 to 160 euros ($87-185). As mask-wearing becomes part of everyday defences against the coronavirus, Belgian designers are turning medical masks into chic accessories. Brussels-based stylist Aude De Wolf has created a "scarf mask" that uses linen, cashmere and other high-quality materials to combine masks with luxurious shawls. "I was inspired by my mother because she doesn't like her neck," De Wolf, who has…
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How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet

How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet

ARETHA PHIRI, Senior lecturer, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University UHURU PORTIA PHALAFALA, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University KEORAPETSE Kgositsile, the South African-born poet who passed away in 2018, lived in exile in the US from 1962 to 1975 and was at the centre of the country’s 1960s and ’70s Black Arts Movement. Informed by his South African and Tswana background, the poet makes a case for multiple inflections of voices, geographies, and histories in the making of transnational black modernity. Analysing his work offers ways in which African poetry can disrupt dominant thinking on Black Atlantic studies, particularly Paul…
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Moroccan women break through in rap scene dominated by men

Moroccan women break through in rap scene dominated by men

AHMED ELJECHTIMI IN a rap scene dominated by men, women's voices are starting to make waves in Morocco. Houda Abouz, a 24-year-old who majors in film studies at a university in the northern city of Tetouan, has long been fascinated by hip-hop, and, encouraged by friends, she picked up a mic and began to perform. In January she appeared in "Hors Serie", a song in which she performed alongside three big male rap stars in Morocco, Elgrande Toto, Don Bigg and Draganov. The video has been viewed around 16 million times on YouTube - a reflection of the popularity the…
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#Jerusalema reaches 50 million views!

#Jerusalema reaches 50 million views!

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER  #JERUSALEMA, the incredible musical phenomenon created by South African music producer, DJ and artist, Master KG, has continued to grow like wildfire and has reached 50-million views across the world. From monks, celebrities, chefs, wedding parties, to ordinary people, everyone is dancing to the hit song which, together with its maker, has become a global sensation. In the song Jerusalema, Master KG features Nomcebo Zikode. Master KG’s song, Jerusalema, has inspired the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge that has gone viral. The song also made it to the iTunes top charts in the USA, Italy and several other European countries. According…
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Gilbert Matthews – a pioneer and a visionary of South African jazz

Gilbert Matthews – a pioneer and a visionary of South African jazz

GWEN ANSELL, Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria SOUTH Africa has done little to acknowledge the passing of a jazz great and titan of drums, Gilbert Matthews. For Bra Gil, who brought credit to South Africa from a host of international jazz stages, the official silence remains deafening. Matthews was a visionary of the South African jazz scene. Although his beginnings were on the conventional Cape Town club jazz circuit, his talent took him across the world – he was, for a time, Ray Charles’ regular drummer – and the music he was exposed to…
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