Journalist, poet and spoken-word artist Tofarati Ige, popularly known as Grand Tycoon, has been named among the 2025 Visibility 50 Africa honourees, a list recognising 50 African personalities and brands noted for building sustained public influence and relevance across the continent. The annual list, curated by Visibility 50 Africa, celebrates individuals whose work has combined…
One quiet Sunday morning, children from the Africa Children’s Heart Foundation were heading to church when they noticed something unusual outside their gate. A small boy, dirty, frightened, and crying, sat alone by the entrance. At just four years old, it was clear he could not have arrived there by himself. Someone had abandoned him….
Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) has obtained testimony from Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Ibrahim, whose case has become a symbol for the mistreatment of minors in Israeli jails. In an interview with a DCIP lawyer, published on Tuesday, 16-year-old Mohammed described the harsh conditions he has faced since his detention began in February,…
Today we have seven new Top Videos to recommend. If there’s a theme, it’s genres colliding from reggae to rap, Afrobeats, a dreamy ballad, classical music elements, and a couple of unlikely collaborations, notably between Burna Boy and Mick Jagger. Check out the full Afropop Top Videos playlist for all our recent selections. And remember,…
Fortune magazine wondered on its cover whether Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison might become the world’s richest person, while BusinessWeek declared Ellison is “cool again”, noting that “Silicon Valley’s bad boy is having his revenge”. Both were published 25 years ago, but they could’ve run this week. The octogenarian Ellison is back in headlines after Oracle…
In a wild and unexpected move, Nintendo announced it’s bringing back the Virtual Boy for the Switch Online + Expansion Pack. The company will release a physical replica of the notorious 1990s tabletop system, allowing players to slot in their Switch or Switch 2 to experience classic Virtual Boy games. Read: The Apple iPhone 17…
SANDUSKY, Ohio — The band was warming up, lawn chairs started filling the field along Lake Erie’s picturesque shores on a gorgeous summer evening. Then two people showed up with what looked like bombs strapped to their torsos. The appropriate response? “Holy Schnikes!” Almost anywhere else, this would probably be concerning. But not this weekend…
A six-year-old boy was hurt when an octopus grabbed on to his arm and wouldn’t let go after the boy reached into a touch tank at the San Antonio Aquarium, his mother said. Britney Taryn, the boy’s mom, has gone viral on TikTok after posting about her son’s encounter with a giant Pacific octopus on…
