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Shona, 14 other African languages added on Google's services
Google Speech, in partnership with the research team based at the AI Research Center in Accra, Ghana, has announced the launch of Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard and voice input on Translate for ...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:51hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's MRP rallies behind Nigeria's Yoruba people's secession lobby
Zimbabwe's Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), which advocates for the secession of Matabeleland and the Midlands from Zimbabwe to restore a Mthwakazi State, has expressed its support for Nigeria's Yoruba...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 22:33hrs | 462 | by Stephen Jakes
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 701 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Economic attitudes, poverty of mind
THE psychological cost of economic insecurity in Africa today is a damning indictment of poverty and how it warps the way we see our challenges and how to resolve them.It seems when poverty hi...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 9 | by Anotida Chikumbu
King 98 lightens up Xmas with Tanzanian connection
Zimbabwean rapper, King 98 has teamed up with two Tanzanian music sensations, Juma Jux and Shebby Medicine to lighten up the festive mood with an explosive hit song, Jogodo which is a fusion of Afro-p...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 14:47hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
BV partners with TWAA, innovative digital female-driven mentorship platform in support of women in business in Africa
Empowering women in leadership using innovation to boost development "There is no limit to what we, as women, can acco...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 09:43hrs | | by Agencies
Christianity and the Curse of the Papa Generation
We can all agree that Robert Mugabe has proven the "gods" wrong so many times, well at least according to the "prophets" that are awash on every street corner from Harare to Lilongwe. From one to the ...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 21:39hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Anonymous
'No tithes, no heaven'
A video of esteemed Nigerian Pastor E A Adeboye admonishing Christians who do not pay tithes - the practice of giving 10% of their earnings to the church - has enraged some Nigerians on social media....Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:38hrs | | by BBC
The unsung stories of African heroes of faith
The Bible gives us a lot of historical evidence of men and women who did great they were people like us. People like Abraham ,Gideon , Moses, Samson, Rebecca ,Daniel,Elijah and they were man like us y...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 14:39hrs | 17 | by Enos Denhere
Why we must evolve our indigenous greeting culture
There are values Africans hold on to quite strongly, that people who are considered to be of "Advanced Civilisation" rarely concern themselves with. One of which, is the slightly weird nature of our i...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Prophet T.B. Joshua, please don't go!
TEMITOPE Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, is undeniably a global brand. His Emmanuel TV is watched by millions across the world. Joshua recently made headlines when he ann...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Obadiah Mailafia
Royal Destiny new album translated into ten languages
A Zimbabwean gospel music group with members based at home and the UK has launched an album whose title track has been translated into ten languages....Published: 01 May 2017 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Faleyimu Predicts Prophet TB Joshua Death In 2017
Prophet Olagorioye Faleyimu has predicted that popular televangelist T B Joshua's time is getting up and is likely to died in 2017.He also said President Buhari is not the Messiah bu...Published: 27 Dec 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
URGENT - Africa: Graphics Casting Call
A PBS series about the history of Africa which is being presented and written by Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jnr.en.wikipedia.org/wiki...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
TB Joshua chosen to represent Nigeria at international conference
Prophet T.B. Joshua continues to fly the flag for Nigeria abroad, having been selected to choose three young leaders who will represent the nation at an internationally renowned conference across Asia...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Busting the myth of the English speaking demons
When I penned my last article (Debunking Magaya's 600 000 Myth) I was being all technical and mathematical, delving into figures and trying to fit over half a million people into a space less than 1 s...Published: 29 Dec 2015 at 16:42hrs | | by Bonzo reSvosve
Newcastle Student and 4Cs fundraises to replace kerosene lights with Solar lamps in Zimbabwe
Newcastle: Teaming up with her local community and the Charity 4Cs-Gwen Taiwo is hosting a quad-themed, wedding cat walk show the North east town has ever had. This first ever, such showcase of ...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
TB Joshua joins ranks of the world famous
Hot on the heels of his nomination as the ‘Yoruba Man Of The Decade', Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua has received a global acknowledgement by ‘The Society For The Recognition Of Famous People'....Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 20:14hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Yoruba groups rejoice with T.B. Joshua over award
The Alliance of Pan-Yoruba Groups (APAYO) have lauded the recent announcement declaring Pastor T.B. Joshua as the 'Yoruba Man Of The Year'. In a statement titled 'The Goldfish Has No Hid...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 12:35hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
TB Joshua named 'Man of the Decade' in Nigeria
One the most popular televangelists in Zimbabwe, Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua, has been named the 'Yoruba man of the decade'. Joshua, who is well known in Zimbabwe due to the fame o...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 17:42hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
A nation 'made in Zanu-PF'
Inheritance of a duel became all a daunting task, a nation inherited by a clique manufactured with real material of destruction, a DNA of plunder progeny, a quest of self enrichment of an unfathom...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 07:19hrs | | by General F Mufambi
Nigerian prostitutes to declare three days of free sex if....
Commercial sex workers in the country under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes, NANP, have thrown their weight behind the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Con...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by staff reporter
Africa, a continent of prophets?
Live on Emmanuel TV the controversial Pentecostal "prophet" from Nigeria T.B. Joshua is working a miracle. In front of the usual audience of thousands of people in his Synagogue Church of All Nations ...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 14:56hrs | | by Mario Giro
How the 'prosperity' gospel destroys Africa
I'm not an African, but in 2008 some Nigerian friends gave me a Yoruba name ("Akinwale") because I have been to that country so often. My visits there, along with trips to Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, South...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by J. Lee Grady
King Mzilikazi Reloaded: A story of how we begin to remember
"NO NO NO I will never say progress is being made....If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress..you pull it all out ...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 06:07hrs | 17 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Mzilikazi the Sequel U-X Ongasolveki: The Shona are by no means enemies of the Ndebele nation!
This threatens to be a long piece. Besides the two primary texts, Andrew Giddens Bain's 'Moselekatse the Bull Elephant and Moffat's Matabeleland Journals' edited by AJR Wallis, the piece h...Published: 14 Mar 2013 at 20:04hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Nigerian secretly marries two Zimbabwean women
A Nigerian national allegedly obtained two marriage certificates in a bid to regularise his stay in Zimbabwe.Marriage certificates at hand show that Innocent Nwaolisa married a Zimbabwean wom...Published: 21 Aug 2012 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malian women create beauty and profit through local fabrics
Hand-dyed polished cotton - called bazin - is the mainstay of Malian fashion. The blind singers Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia extolled the fabric in a song released in 2005, "Beaux dimanches" ("B...Published: 27 Apr 2012 at 20:52hrs | | by Africa Renewal
JJC's We are African - #263REMIXED
Introducing the Zimbabwe Allstars:- Jusa Dementor, Bkay & Kazz, Decibel, Jonah, Robbie Gee, TK and first lady - Cynthia Mare, who team up with Nigerian su...Published: 19 Apr 2011 at 08:24hrs | | by Byo24News
Massive queues for Nigerian presidential elections
Nigerians massed at polling stations on Saturday for what they hope will be their first credible presidential election for decades and could set an example across Africa.Queues formed early ac...Published: 16 Apr 2011 at 10:06hrs | | by Byo24News
Is Tribalism the Future?
"This is a far, far away country about which we know very little," said Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as he declined to take his country to war over Adolf Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland....Published: 08 Apr 2011 at 12:08hrs | | by Patrick Buchanan
Pane munhu: Shona on 2011 UK census languages
BRITAIN is printing census forms in 57 languages, including Shona, it was revealed.In the most significant acknowledgement of Zimbabwe to Britain migration over th...Published: 25 Feb 2011 at 05:38hrs | | by Byo24News
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