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Adejoke Tugbiyele (Photo: Olubode Shawn Brown) The work of Nigerian-American activist and visual artist Adejoke Tugbiyele spans several media, including film, sculpture and works on paper. Known primarily for the handcrafted figures she assembles from repurposed materials, Tugbiyele’s art evokes themes of sexual identity and spirituality with respect to performative aspects of traditional Yoruba culture.

Born Oludotun Adebayo 25 August 1960 (age 54) Lagos , Nigeria Other names The Referee Occupation Radio broadcaster, Writer Oludotun Adebayo MBE (born 25 August 1960) is a British radio presenter, writer and publisher. Adebayo, who is Nigerian-born, is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live , as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives .

Born Oludiran Adebayo 30 August 1968 (age 46) Islington , London, England, UK Occupation Writer Nationality British Ethnicity Nigerian Education Malvern College Alma mater University of Oxford Website www .diranadebayo .com Diran Adebayo FRSL is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his stylish, inventive tales of London and the lives of African diasporans.

Julien Hervouët (left) and Simon Robic Few industry sectors have escaped the attentions of the new generation of disruptive tech entrepreneurs , but one that has needed it more than most is customer service.

Startups. A new website keeps track of startups that fail – and why: “What stands out to me is how many companies say they failed because of a ‘lack of market fit.

Gary Carr (born, 11 December 1986, London ) is an English stage, film and television actor, dancer and musician.  

Mo Abudu Born 11 September 1964 (age 50) London Residence Lagos , Nigeria Occupation Talk show host, media proprietor Website www.momentswithmo.tv Mosunmola Abudu , usually known as Mo Abudu , is a talk show host, TV producer, media personality, human resources management consultant, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [1] She has been described by Forbes as "Africa's Most Successful Woman".  

Born 8 October 1986 (age 28) North London , England Occupation Actor, Writer Years active 1996–present Michael Obiora (born 8 October 1986, north London , England) is an English actor and writer. Career Michael Obiora was born on 8 October 1986 in north-west London to Nigerian - Igbo parents. As a six-year-old, Obiora was determined to become an entertainer like his idol Michael Jackson and his mother enrolled him in drama lessons.

Kele Okereke Kele Okereke in 2009 Background information Birth name Kelechukwu Rowland Okereke Born 13 October 1981 (age 33) Liverpool , England Origin London , England Genres Indie rock , post-punk revival , alternative dance , electro house , alternative rock , art punk Occupation(s) Musician Instruments Vocals , guitar , vocoder Years active 2002–present Labels Wichita V2 Kobalt Associated acts Bloc Party , Tommy Sparks , Tiësto , Martin Solveig , The Chemical Brothers , Hercules & Love Affair , Lucy Taylor Website iamkele .com Notable instruments Fender Telecaster Gretsch Tennessee Rose Rickenbacker 620 Fender Performer Kelechukwu "Kele" Rowland [ citation needed ] Okereke (born 13 October 1981), also known by the mononym Kele , is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock [ 1 ] band Bloc Party .  

A close-up of American Pharoah. (Getty Images) The drought has been broken. We have a Triple Crown winner. In a wire-to-wire victory in the Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah has become the first horse to win the Triple Crown in 37 years. Not since Affirmed crossed the wire ahead of Alydar  in 1978 has this been done. “[I knew we would win] in the first turn,” jockey Victor Espinoza said after the race. “I tell you, I had the best feeling ever when he crossed the first turn.”

Following the success of the first season of Knights of Sidonia , Netflix NFLX +0.64% has picked up the second season to be aired in July.

A man in China covered himself with 1.1 million bees while wearing just his underwear  to set a new Guinness World Record – and was stung 2,000 times for his efforts.  Gao Bingguo, a 55-year-old beekeeper in Tai'an City in the eastern Shandong province started the challenge and was assisted by fellow beekeepers who dumped a large ball of bees on him from hives.They also attached dozens of queen bees to Bingguo to make sure the bees would be attracted to his body. When the work was all done, the bees swarming Bingguo weighed 240 pounds, according to ABC News . The previous record (who knew?) was set by beekeeper Zhang Wei from the northwest province of Shaanxi in China, which was 184 pounds. Judge Luo Xing told Sky News that Bingguo broke the record after the bees swarmed on him for about an hour. "After we checked and searched database, and witnessed it at scene, we announce, Mr. Gao Bingguo successfully breaks the record," said Xing. The bees stung Bingguo 2,...

Story highlights Badilisha Poetry X-Change is the world's largest archive of African poets Poets featured on the "mobile first" site must be African or have a strong link to the continent 70% of mobile users in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Ericsson consumer report Each poet profile includes a bio, photo, text poems and audio podcasts (CNN) Linda Kaoma is on the hunt in East Africa. Her tour of the region will see her travel to Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

Exclusive: Take a first look at Carol Ann Duffy’s version of Everyman, directed by Rufus Norris, in which Chiwetel Ejiofor comes face to face with Death.

4 / 5 stars Olivier, London Rufus Norris begins his directorship at the National with Chiwetel Ejiofor starring as a superb Everyman in Carol Ann Duffy’s take on the 15th century morality play ‘He has had, from his earliest stage appearances, the ability to radiate’: Chiwetel Ejiofor as Everyman at the National. Photograph: Tristram Kenton By their first productions shall ye know them. Or shall we? When Trevor Nunn took over as artistic director of the National Theatre, he opened with a production of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People that was choreographed like a musical.

Female crime writers have a message for publishers: don’t push us into the chasm between JK Rowling and next big thing Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train – tediously dubbed ‘the new Gone Girl’. Photograph: David Levene T hey call themselves Killer Women – the name, only mildly terrifying, of a collective launched this week by 15 women crime writers.

  INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka's poetry has often been described as a powerful and serious agent to social change. His themes are primarily concerned with the promotion of human rights and African politics.

Credit Photograph by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report )—The National Security Agency is compensating for the expiration of its power to collect the American people’s personal information by logging on to Facebook, the agency confirmed on Monday.

Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen. Since emerging from stealth four years ago, Pure Storage has built a big business out of all-flash storage. Triple-digit revenue growth and leading net promoter scores have helped the startup raise nearly half a billion dollars and score a $3 billion valuation. But now CEO Scott Dietzen says the company has made its biggest move yet—into hardware.

  China Is Going Global, it has been for many years, yet not everyone (in business, academia, politics) fully understands what that means for their professions, their businesses and the world we all share.  This year  appears to be the launch pad for a massive, multi-faceted, decades long, global engagement for Beijing on all the aforementioned fronts and more.