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1 week ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Tina Knowles has recalled in her memoir the day she saved her daughter’s music video look. In her Matriarchmemoir, 71-year-old Knowles shared that she was once in charge of hair for the group Destiny’s Child’s during its “No, No, No (Part 2)” music video shoot. The group, made up of her daughter Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett had Darren Grant as director, Chris Maldonado and Eric Ferrell as makeup artists and Knowles as hairstylist for the Los Angeles video shoot.

1 week ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Acclaimed Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at age 87, his family members have announced. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o,” his daughter Wanjiku Wa Ngugi wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. More soon…

1 week ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote could have been $120 billion richer if he had invested the billions of dollars used in building his refinery in big tech, according to the Nigerian government.  The country’s vice president, Kashim Shettima, said that the business magnate could have opted to put his resources into lucrative international companies like Microsoft, Amazon, or Google. He however chose to build his country by investing as much as $19 billion in the Dangote Refinery.

1 week ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

Karooooo chief executive Zak Calisto is officially a dollar billionaire, with his holdings in the company now worth $1.1 billion. South Africa’s Calisto directly owns 65% of the Karooooo group’s shares, with another 10% of the company tied to him through a standing agreement, giving him beneficial voting rights, according to Business Tech. Last Thursday, the company carried a market capitalization of $1.65 billion.

1 week ago | face2faceafrica.com | Mildred Europa Taylor

A man has become a jail’s first resident to earn his GED thanks to the facility’s new partnership with a college. The resident, identified only as Kemorion, is the first in the Athens-Clarke County Jail to earn his GED through a new partnership with Athens Technical College. According to a statement by the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office, GED testing is one of over 20 free educational programs now available to residents inside the Athens-Clarke County Jail.