Apple prepares iPad2 unveiling
It's pretty much official: After months of anticipation, Apple on Wednesday sent out invitations to a March 2 press event where the company is...
Africa Movie Academy Awards names nominees
Over the weekend, as most of us were reveling in Academy Awards thrills and chills, the nominations for another major movie award ceremony were...
Hollywood legend Jane Russell dies at 89
Former Hollywood actress and sex symbol Jane Russell has died at the age of 89.
The brunette was discovered by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, who...
Natalie Portman denounces Dior’s Galliano
The actress Natalie Portman, who has an endorsement contract with Dior for its Miss Dior Cherie fragrance, has strongly condemned its chief designer, John...
Addis Ababa: Experts Meeting on eHealth and Telemedicine Harmonization in Africa
The Experts Meeting on Health and Telemedicine Harmonization in Africa, opened today, Monday 28th February, 2011 at the Headquarter of the African Union in...
Libya: International forces close in on Muammar Gaddafi
International naval and air forces have positioned around Libya in a bid to force the Libyan strong man out of office. Washington has frozen...
Ivory Coast heading towards civil war?
While the United Nations suspects Laurent Gbagbo of flouting an arms embargo in an effort to rebuild his air force, suspicions of weapons acquisition...
Libya: The Gaddafis between the devil and the deep blue sea
Following reports that the death toll may have climbed to nearly 2000 since the beginning of anti-government protests in Libya, France has embarked on...
Afrika Bambaataa: Founder of hip-hop culture
Known as the godfather of hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa evolved from an inner-city gang leader to the emissary of a worldwide youth culture.
Afrika Bambaataa was...
Libya: Israeli music video featuring Gaddafi speech hits youtube top
Whilst Muammar Gaddafi's eccentric lifestyle has been a subject of constant amazement within political circles, the entertainment industry might view things differently. A music...
Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai to go to court over love child
The private life of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a widower, is never far from media spotlight. After being romantically linked to a string...
Libya: Gaddafi regime and protesters killing migrant workers
As the propensity for civil war heightens in Libya, citizens of poorer nations trapped in the crisis and terror shaking the North African country...
BET Honors celebrates black culture
Imagine an opinion poll of African Americans on the topic, "Things that would make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. turn over in his grave...
MTV inaugurates all-digital awards show
MTV's new awards show will be called the OMAs and it's scheduled for April 28. By the way, the "O" in OMAs doesn't stand...
Christopher Nolan directs final ‘Batman’ film
Over nearly 70 years as the World's Greatest Detective, Batman has followed clues, pursued investigations and pounded out confessions from a diverse rogues' gallery...
Motorola Xoom tablet almost rivals iPad
It’s an old pattern by now. Phase 1: Apple introduces some new gadget. The bloggers and the industry tell us why it’ll fail. Phase...
‘King’s Speech’ sweeps Academy Awards
The global box office success of The King's Speech has seen it take more than $230m (£142m).
British film The King's Speech has been crowned...
Carter G. Woodson: the Father of Black History Month
African-American historian Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) founded Negro History Week in 1926, a one-week celebration of Black history every annual February that eventually grew...
Contingency plans to protect civilians in Libya
In two, coordinated initiatives a coalition of over 200 Arab organisations and a group of over thirty prominent intellectuals from across the Middle East...
Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance
Black History Month observances seek to correct factual inaccuracies that continue oozing across America perpetuating a litany of misunderstandings that fuel racial discord in...
Experts and Gibberish in the Ethiopian, Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan and Western context
The poetic rhetoric of some American officials in the face of complex political issues tend bring gist to the mill of the satirist. “Some...
Ethiopian economy’s new gold rush
Gold is now Ethiopia’s second largest export item as well as the country's second foreign exchange earner, after coffee.
The horn of Africa country's half...
Libya: Gaddafi turns to son’s special forces and foreign mercenaries
Col Muammar Gaddafi has turned to a special military unit controlled by his son and mercenaries allegedly from Zimbabwe to aid his battle against...
Senegal – Iran: From friendship to diplomatic war
The Senegalese government officially severed diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran on Wednesday. Dakar has accused Tehran of supplying arms to separatists...
Opposition leaders call for protests in Uganda
The leader of opposition in Uganda Dr Kiiza Besigye and three other former presidential candidates have called upon Ugandans to protest against the results...
Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries
Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is
suspected of having mercenaries...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’
Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
Libya: Independence for the east?
There are indications that Eastern Libya is now independent of Libya. Reports emanating from the city of Benghazi suggest that every element of Col...
Ethiopia: Kenyan protests could compromise mega electric project?
After massive protests in Nairobi, Kenya, last weekend, against the construction of Ethiopia's mega hydro electric dam, Gilgel Gibe III, calling on China to...
Customized inventions for Africa gaining ground
In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS...