Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty New Music: Beyonce Releases Album Inspired By ‘The Lion King’ Reboot Queen NalaYONCE was inspired by the 2019 reboot of the classic Disney film The Lion King and she gave us a full album! It’s called The Lion King: The Gift and it’s blowing up the internet. Beyoncé says the project was meant to be “ a love letter to Africa ” in a recent interview. Although curated by Nala herself, this is far from a solo project. Executive producer Bey solicited contributions from artists from various parts of the globe including Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa. In the features, you’ll find Mr Eazi, Yemi Alade, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, and Tekno sing in multiple languages. She also does duets with Donald Glover and Kendrick Lamar. Even though The Gift is a separate project from the film’s official soundtrack, that doesn’t stop Beyoncé from telling that timeless story of the Pride Lands through each track. Are YOU excited for it yet? Check it out below!
D r. Olivette Otele is breaking barriers for Black women in the United Kingdom’s higher education system. Otele has made history by becoming the first Black woman history professor in the UK, Blavity reported. Black British history has just been made! Dr. Olivette Otele is now the first Black woman to be a history professor in the UK https://t.co/Kfb9jKJNPR pic.twitter.com/x6lgwDI82P — Blavity News (@Blavity) October 24, 2018 She was chosen to lead history courses at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park on Duchy of Cornwall campus, the news outlet writes. Otele—a native of Cameroon—has several degrees under her belt, including a degree in literature and history from the Paris-based Universite La Sorbonne, a Master of Advanced Study, and her doctorate degree. Her work has been featured in several publications and she has penned her own book. Otele’s work is centered on history and how it has shaped race and identity in the UK. After being appointed, she took to Twitter to share her excitement about taking on the new role. “BIG NEWS: my people, @BathSpaUni has awarded me a professorship and a Chair in History,” she tweeted. “May this open the door 2many hard working women, especially WoC, even + specifically Black women, in academia in general & in History in particular. In strength, peace and love my ppl.” Otele believes that exploring history is imperative to understanding the state of society today. She also says that opening up and generating conversations about what has happened in the past can create unity. “I still (naively I’m told) believe that understanding the past and who we are as people will show us the way forward. History is about sharing stories and coming together as communities of people. That’s why one of my main areas of research is memory and memorialization of the past,” she said in an interview . “Understanding that each one of us has the power to make our world an interesting and wonderful place is crucial. Historians don’t just tell stories. They engage with the workings of human nature. Even ‘just’ telling the story is a powerful act that can be turned into a tool for social justice.” This has been a big year for Black women in academia. In August, it was announced that for the first time in Harvard University’s history, four of the institution’s schools were being led by African-American women. SEE ALSO: Harvard Has Four Black Women Faculty Deans For First Time In University’s History Brown University To Rename Building After First Black Graduates [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3834782″ overlay=”true”]
Felipe Ramales / Splash News Whose Halloween Yams Are These? Do these yams look familiar ? They oughta! The owner of these yams is featured on BOSSIP all the time, both for her TV and film projects as well as her bangin bawwwwwwdy and some occasional relationship dramz… Can you guess the cakes? Hit the flip for the answer
Last summer, Cameroon’s own Stanley Enow toured with Nigerian recording artist, Davido, during his 30 Billion World Tour. Now the duo has teamed up to present a new single produced by Soft Touch called “Caramel” Retail About Stanley Enow: With a handful of awards and endorsements to prove it, Stanley Enow has been making a statement ever since he hit the scene in 2013. He broke barriers at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards, becoming the first Cameroonian to win “Best New Act.” And he recently became the first musician in his country to be endorsed by Bicec Bank. Last month, Stanley was recognized by CNN when the network invited him to showcase his music and social initiatives as part of the African Voices show.
How AIDS Truly Started Do you where AIDS truly came from? As New York Post reports, In Randy Shilts’ history of AIDS, “And the Band Played On,” Air Canada steward named Gaëtan Dugas is pinpointed as the first case of then-named “gay cancer,” and blamed for bringing the virus to the US and infecting 40 people or more with HIV. While there’s no doubt that Dugas helped spread the virus , new data shows that he was by no means the first case. In fact, HIV had already been around for nearly 75 years and likely already in the US for about 10 years, going virtually unnoticed due to its extreme rarity and doctors’ inability to identify what the issue was. As author David Quammen reveals in his new book “The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Rain Forest:” “Dugas himself was infected by some other human, presumably during a sexual encounter — and not in Africa . . . somewhere closer to home.” “As evidence now shows, HIV had already arrived in North America when Gaëtan Dugas was a virginal adolescent.” And to the urban legends that HIV came from sexual contact between a human and a chimp — that’s not true either. The disease DID originate in simian blood, however the spread from chimp to human was much more organic: “AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in or near a small southeastern wedge of Cameroon, around 1908.” Quammen writes. The most likely way it jumped species was through a person Quammen calls the “Cut Hunter” — a man who hunted and butchered a chimpanzee infected with simian immunodeficiency virus and was wounded in the process. The chimp’s blood mingled with his through the cuts in his skin. From there, the virus spread from person to person one at a time in low numbers, very slowly and unnoticed due to high mortality rates and frequent death by disease. The virus spread much faster mid-century when French-speaking Haitian colonials, placed there by Belgium, introduced re-usable syringes to the Congo while treating ailments. Long story short, the disease went from the Congo to Haiti after the Belgian government fell and medics returned home, soon spreading to America after more syringe-sharing, blood-donation, and sexual contact between Americans and Haitians occurred: “It reached hemophiliacs through the blood supply. It reached drug addicts through shared needles. It reached gay men… by sexual transmission, possibly from an initial contact between two males, an American and a Haitian.” Interesting stuff, right? But while we’re figuring out where it all started…can we get them to figure out how to end it??
42 Dead In Islamic Terrorist Attack On Nigerian College Another day, another deadly terrorist attack . Via Fox News: Islamic terrorists dressed in Nigerian military uniforms assaulted a college inside the country Sunday, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in their dorms and shot others trying to flee, witnesses say. “They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible,” one surviving student, who would only give his first name of Idris, told Reuters. The siege began at about 1 a.m. in rural Gujba. “They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them,” Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press. The extremists also torched classrooms. Nigeria State Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai told Reutersthat he suspected that the terrorist group Boko Haram was behind the attack, but declined to elaborate. Idi Mato said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22, but he said as many as 50 may have been killed. The Nigerian military has already collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 25 miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. Two of the wounded later died, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping at the hospital. Boko Haram is aiming to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has intensified attacks on civilians in revenge for a Nigerian military offensive against the group, Reuters reports. Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu. Northeastern Nigeria is under a military state of emergency to battle an Islamic uprising prosecuted by Boko Haram militants who have killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state, though half the country’s 160 million citizens are Christian. Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the local Hausa language. More than 30,000 people have fled the terrorist attacks to neighboring Cameroon and Chad and the uprising combined with the military emergency has forced farmers from their fields and vendors from their markets. The attacks come as Nigeria prepares to celebrate 52 years of independence from Britain on Tuesday and amid political jockeying in the run up to presidential elections next year with many northern Muslim politicians saying they do not want another term for Jonathan, who is from the predominantly Christian south. Damn, the dead body count keeps rising and it’s just so sad that innocent lives are taken each week with these attacks. SMH.
Netherlands#39; coach Bert Van Marwijk(L) congratulates striker Arjen Robben after his shot on the post led to the second Dutch goal agaonst Cameroon during their Group E first round 2010 World Cup football match in Cape Town. Holland won 2-1 and is qualified for the second round. Netherlands 2 Slovakia 1 – World Cup second round latest. At Moses Mabhida Stadium. Scorers: Netherlands: Arjen Robben 18, Wesley Sneijder 84 Slovakia: Robert Vittek 90+4 pen Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 61,962
Watch Cameroon vs Netherlands Football Highlights Video Online , the game event of your favorite Football Soccer Team of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa soccer match between Cameroon and Netherlands on their great match in Group E this June 24, exactly 20:30 local time and the game held in Green Point Stadium, Cape Town. Stay tuned and feel free to watch this great match between the best teams here online. Don’t miss to watch the highlights event of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa video coverage via satellite. A good and exciting game will be played by the two great teams of FIFA World Cup, the Cameroon vs Netherlands. Watch it and enjoy, who’s gonna be the winner. FIFA World Cup 2010: Cameroon vs Netherlands Highlights Video FIFA World Cup 2010: Cameroon vs Netherlands Highlights Video is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →
Cameroon#39;s striker Samuel Eto#39;o reacts after losing to the Natherlands 2-1 their Group E first round 2010 World Cup football match in Cape Town. Cameroon is out of the World Cup. The Netherlands reaffirmed their status as one of the World Cup favourites on Thursday by beating Cameroon 2-1 to set up a knockout round clash with Slovakia. Bert van Marwijk#39;s team only needed a point to secure top spot in Group E but took all three with goals from Robin van Persie and substitute Klaas-Ja
• Robben recovers to play full part in training • Winger likely to start on the bench against Japan The Holland winger Arjen Robben has completed a full training session for the first time since recovering from a hamstring injury, but is unlikely to start his team’s World Cup match against Japan tomorrow. In training earlier today Robben appeared to be fully recovered from a left hamstring injury he sustained in a warm-up match against Hungary on 5 June. The injury kept him out of his country’s 2-0 defeat of Denmark in their first World Cup game. The Holland coach, Bert van Marwijk, says he is unlikely to play Robben against Japan in the Group E game in Durban, but has not completely ruled it out. Japan beat Cameroon 1-0 in their first match. “It’s quite something that he trained with us today,” said Van Marwijk. “But we have to wait and see how he responds tomorrow.” In a friendly last September the Dutch were frustrated by Japan for over an hour before winning 3-0. “This is going to be a tougher fight,” said Van Marwijk. “Both teams want to win and both sides won their first match. We cannot compare that game to this one. I expect a very aggressive Japan and we are prepared for everything and anything.” Van Marwijk believes Japan have improved since then and that was evident in their 1-0 triumph over Cameroon in their World Cup opener. “They have progressed a lot,” he said. “They have been together for a long time and have played lots of matches. They have been looking for some time to find a style of play which they didn’t have in qualifying. But they appear to have found that style. I have a lot of respect for the Japan coach and his team and we will not be underestimating them.” Van Marwijk believes the Oranje must focus on themselves and not on their rivals. “People who know me know that I concentrate on my team and I don’t make adjustments based on our rivals,” he said. “We have to play the way we know how and make the most of our chances.” The Oranje will have plenty of support tomorrow in Durban with thousands of fans having travelled to South Africa, while there is plenty of optimism back home regarding the team’s chances to go far in the tournament. “We hear a lot about the atmosphere back in Holland and this is great,” said Van Marwijk. “We also have lots of fans here and it’s wonderful that they have travelled such a long way to support us. But we have a long way to go and the most important thing is tomorrow’s match.” Holland World Cup 2010 World Cup 2010 Group E guardian.co.uk
