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Cinq Music acquires D’Banj’s catalog in C.R.E.A.M talent partnership
C.R.E.A.M, which launched in 2016, says it has more than seven million subscribers across Nigeria. Source
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Boss of fake government agency arrested in Nigeria after weeks on the run
The case has gripped Nigeria since President Bola Tinubu ordered a corruption investigation last week.
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Kenyan court dismisses Rastafarians’ bid to legalise cannabis
Kenya’s High Court has rejected a bid by the Rastafari Society of Kenya to allow cannabis use for religious worship, ruling that the country’s drug laws do not breach constitutional protections for freedom of religion and belief. The decision is significant because it preserves Kenya’s strict ban on cannabis while also signalling that any change…
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Before the gold rush: a South African story – in pictures
The Guardian gallery highlights *Mapalakata*, the debut publication by South African photographer Robin Bernstein, which explores the layered history of Mpumalanga on the border with Mozambique and Eswatini. Using portraits, landscapes and historical traces, the project examines how different waves of outsiders have moved through, occupied and reshaped the region long before and after European…
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How a former ‘street kid’ is key to South Africa’s police corruption inquiry
Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, due to appear at the Madlanga Commission, grew up hustling to make a living.
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‘It wasn’t a dream, it was a threat’: the film festival celebrating pan-Africanism’s rich and complex history
Project a Black Planet: Film, a new season of screenings at the Barbican in London exemplifies how the movement was an act of solidarity, resistance and fierce creativity Algiers, 1969. What had, for seven years, been the metropolis of a newly independent country became, over the course of 12 days in July, the cosmopolitan centre…
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Diamond giant De Beers halts work at flagship South African mine as demand plummets
Production will stop for two years at the mine which employs more than 4,000 people.
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Mother and two daughters ‘murdered by IT expert father before he fled to South Africa’ died of blunt force trauma, post mortem finds
Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, has been accused of murdering his wife, Nothabo, 42, and their two girls and appeared in court today in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Wales captain Lake set to miss South Africa Test
Dewi Lake is set to miss his first game under Steve Tandy when Wales face the world champions in the Nations Championship on Saturday.