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Ntone Edjabe
Ntone Edjabe (born 1970) is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of '' Chimurenga'' magazine. Life and career Ntone Edjabe was born in Douala, Cameroon, and he moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where he began his studies. In 1993 he interrupted his studies to move to South Africa. He works as a journalist, writer, DJ, and basketball coach. In 1997 he became co-founder and manager of the Pan African Market, a commercial and cultural space located in Long Street in the centre of Cape Town. In 2002 he founded ''Chimurenga'' magazine. In 2004 he was facilitator of ''Time of the Writer'', and in 2007 he participated in its 10th edition at the Centre for Creative Arts of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Edjabe is co-founder and member of the DJ collective Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. In 2009 he was Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence. Recognition In 2011, Edjabe won the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Awards, with his ''Chimurenga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region (Cameroon), Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport (DLA), it is the commercial and economic capital of Cameroon and the entire Economic Community of Central African States, CEMAC region comprising Gabon, Congo, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic and Cameroon. Consequently, it handles most of the country's major exports, such as Petroleum, oil, Cocoa bean, cocoa and coffee, timber, metals and fruits. , the city and its surrounding area had an estimated population of 5,768,400. The city sits on the estuary of Wouri River and its climate is tropical. History The first Europeans to visit the area were the Portuguese people, Portuguese in about 1472. At the time, the estuary of Wouri River was known as the Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River). By 1650, it had become the site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Radio (South Africa)
Bush Radio is a popular and pioneering community radio station in South Africa. The station broadcasts programs in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa from Salt River, Cape Town on 89.5 MHz FM, with a music and talk format aimed at the 18 to 39 age group. Early life Bush Radio started out as a project of the Cassette Education Trust during the last stages of the struggle against apartheid."Community radio in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Bush Radio in Cape Town" . ''Transformations'', February 2005. Its programmes were distributed on cassette tape. Many of its volunteers and programmers were students from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1970 Births
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People From Douala
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroonian Journalists
Cameroonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Cameroon ** Culture of Cameroon ** Demographics of Cameroon ** Lists of Cameroonians * Cameroonian Pidgin English ** Languages of Cameroon * Cameroonian cuisine See also * * Cameroons or British Cameroon, a former British Mandate territory in British West Africa * Cameronian, a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters in the 17th and 18th centuries * Cameronians (other) Cameronians may refer to: * Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron * 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in exist ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. She was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine ''Tin House''. Writing career Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing. Her first job in publishing was with ''Spy'' magazine in the 1980s. Schappell's first book of fiction, ''Use Me'', a collection of 10 linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A second book of fiction, ''Blueprints for Building Better Girls'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Wall Street Journal'' '' Newsweek/The Daily Beast'', and ''O, The Oprah Magazine''. Schappell's articles, fiction, interviews and essays have been published in magazines including '' GQ'', ''Vogue'', ''Spin'', ''BOMB'', ''One Story'' and ''Nerve''. She has written book reviews for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Malaquais
"Dominique" is a 1963 French language popular song, written and performed by the Belgian female singer Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile" in French) or The Singing Nun. The song is about Saint Dominic, a Spanish-born priest and founder of the Dominican Order, of which she was a member (as Sister Luc-Gabrielle). The English-version lyrics of the song were written by Noël Regney. In addition to French and English, Deckers recorded versions in Dutch, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. It was a top selling record in 11 countries in late 1963 and early 1964. Commercial performance "Dominique" reached the Top 10 in 11 countries in late 1963 and early 1964, topping the chart in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It reached the Top 5 in Norway, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, with the song making it into the lower reaches of the Top 10 in the Netherlands, West Germany, and the United Kingdom. The song reached and stayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Focus On Africa
''BBC Focus on Africa'' was a quarterly magazine established in 1990, based in London, UK, and available widely in Africa and in English-speaking countries globally. The magazine covered news, politics, economics, social events, culture and sport, and had access to correspondents based across Africa. The last edition was published in October 2012, making it the last BBC World Service magazine to close down after ''London Calling'' and ''On Air''. References External links Official website 1990 establishments in the United Kingdom 2012 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Focus on Africa ''BBC Focus on Africa'' was a quarterly magazine established in 1990, based in London, UK, and available widely in Africa and in English-speaking countries globally. The magazine covered news, politics, economics, social events, culture and sport ... News magazines published in the United Kingdom Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct magazines published in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autre Afrique
''L'Autre Afrique'' was a monthly news magazine published in Paris, France, published between 1992 and 2002. History and profile ''L'Autre Afrique'' was founded in 1997 by Paris-based journalist Jean-Baptiste Placca as a response to the "clichéd and often reductive" depiction of Africa in the Western media. In contrast ''L'Autre Afrique'' sought to inspire a different reading that reflected the diversity of opinion, realities, terminology and complexities of daily life across a vast continent of more than 50 nations. It was headquartered in Paris. The first issue appeared in May 1997. ''L'Autre Afrique'' was thus characterised by its investigative journalism, coverage and fieldwork reportages. Placca also saw the newspaper as a pedagogical Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and Developmental psychology, psychological development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politique Africaine
''Politique africaine'' is a quarterly francophone academic journal that publishes articles and book reviews on current issues in African politics. It was established in 1981 and is published by Éditions Karthala in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ..., France. External links * Political science journals African studies journals Academic journals established in 1981 Quarterly journals French-language journals {{africa-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo Muyanga
Neo or NEO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * Neo (''The Matrix''), the alias of Thomas Anderson, a hacker and the protagonist of the Matrix film series * Neo (''Marvel Comics'' species), a fictional race of superhumans * Neo Saiba , a character from ''Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01'' * Mettaton NEO, a character in '' Undertale'' * Spamton NEO, a character in '' Deltarune'' * NEO, a character from ''Digimon Next'' * Neo, short for Neopolitan, a character from the animated series ''RWBY'' Music * N.E.O. (band), a Lithuanian band * Neo (British band), a post-punk band * Neo (Hungarian band), a Hungarian group * Neo (Italian band), a prog-jazz group * Ne Obliviscaris, sometimes abbreviated NeO, an Australian heavy metal band * ''Neo'' (album), a 1979 album by Ian North * NCT (band), Neo Culture Technology, a K-pop boy band *"N.E.O.", a song by Chai Other entertainment * ''Neo'' (magazine), an anime, manga and Asian film magazine published in the UK * Neo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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