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She has worked as an accountant, competed on The X Factor and had her songs banned from TV. Now she’s using her profile to change a toxic culture In the quest to find a perfect spot for her router, Tiwa Savage has to disrupt her four-year-old son Jamil’s TV time. He puts up a mild …
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's silent confession lay tightly wrapped inside the trappings of the White House, a fireworks show on the National Mall and a long speech in which he accepted the Republican Party's nomination and congratulated himself for a job well done. It's the quiet part he won't dare say out loud: as …
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The "Black Panther" star, 43, was memorialized on social media, where many expressed shock as news of his death spread. Chadwick Boseman, the star of "Black Panther" died Friday of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 43. They said Boseman had been diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer in 2016, which had progressed …
Last month, the contours of Uganda’s 2021 elections began to take shape, and they promise to meld longstanding problems with new constraints. The upcoming polls were always going to be consequential. President Yoweri Museveni has been in office since 1986, and a new generation of Ugandans has been calling for political change. But the global …
In 1983, Nigeria expelled two million undocumented West African migrants, half of whom were from Ghana. The sturdy, checked bags into which they packed their belongings have become a symbol of exclusion and intolerance. Nearly four decades later, the region is yet to confront its emotional baggage It was the bags that made up Solomon …
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