All Blog Posts Tagged 'Africa' (11)

Akon says he and Michael Jackson were discussing plans to open a number of music-focused schools across Africa which got tragically derailed with the death of the King of Pop. he and MJ came up with back in the day a series of music universities in Akon's home continent. Akon says he and Michael wanted to supply students with instruments, infrastructure and…

Kendrick Lamar celebrated the release of his latest critically acclaimed LP, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, by taking his football skills to Ghana and taking on the Jamestown Boys in a game of street soccer. Crowds and cameras followed the Compton native as he shuffled in the streets of Ghana, after that taking pictures with his teammates and…

Jay-Z and tech mogul Jack Dorsey are launching a roughly $24 million fund to help develop bitcoin.

The Brooklyn-born artist and the Twitter CEO are putting 500 bitcoin into an endowment called “₿trust,” Dorsey announced Friday.

The fund’s mission is to make bitcoin “the internet’s currency” and it will initially focus on aiding efforts to develop the…

Kimora Lee Simmons‘ custody arrangement has taken a contentious turn — as her ex Djimon Hounsou seeks joint custody of their son, while her side claims Hounsou is threatening to move the boy to Africa.

Simmons was strolling down the street in Beverly Hills Friday when a man walked up to her and handed her a stack of papers, paparazzi photos of the…

Beyonce and Jay-Z will be among headliners at a Nelson Mandela tribute concert to be held in South Africa at the end of the year.

The couple will form part of a star-studded line-up at the Mandela:100 event on December 2 to honor the legacy of the anti-apartheid hero in his Centenary year.

Other performers include Ed Sheeran, Chris Martin, Pharrell Williams,…

They couldn't spare a square.

Telling one another you'll have to ply it from my cold, dead hands, South African shoppers flooded a Checkers store in Roodepoort, Johannesburg for some well-priced toilet paper according to EWN Reporter.

The deal-seekers took a turn for the deranged Friday morning when they impatiently swarmed a cage of the revered rolls.…

Rapper Mos Def was turned away in a South African court Tuesday after refusing to remove a turban on his head.

The American rapper faces charges of trying to leave the country with a bogus passport. He presented a "world passport instead of his American passport and was slapped with the charge.

After being turned away, he returned with a loose scarf…

His passport Mos Definitely wasn’t valid.

Hip-hop artist Yasiin Bey, formerly known by his stage name Mos Def, was arrested Thursday at South Africa's Cape Town International Airport for traveling with “fraudulent” documents — and has just 14 days to hightail it out of the country, according to local media.

The rapper and activist, who had been living in South…

Tears and joyful memories came in equal measure at the memorial service for the Rye woman killed by a lion in South Africa.

More than 100 people packed into the Graham Funeral Home in Rye Saturday to pay tribute to 29-year-old Katherine Chappell.

Chappell was described by her family and friends as a fearless, passionate and proud woman who chased her dreams…

With great media fanfare, an American doctor infected with the Ebola virus landed in the U.S. and was whisked by ambulance to Emory University in Atlanta, where he is being treated in a special isolation unit.

Video of his arrival shows him emerging from the rear doors, wearing a hazardous material suit and headgear. He gingerly walks into the facility, aided by…