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Tanzania's foreign minister sat down with a bunch of diplomats and basically told them the country still wants to play nice despite all the chaos that went down after their election. The government set up some commission to figure out what caused the protests and violence, and they want everyone...

Ruto went full stunt mode when he hopped into the driver's seat of a school bus he just donated to some girls' school out in Garissa County. The president was there laying down foundation stones for expansion work at Yusuf Haji Girls Secondary, and he decided to personally drive the new bus onto...

The Kenyan president and his cabinet just went on an appointment spree, filling up a bunch of government boards and university councils. Ruto kept Winfrida Ngumi running the highways authority for another year, while the education minister dropped like 20 different people into various university...

Zambian lawmakers just booted Tasila Lungu from her parliamentary gig because she kept skipping work after her dad, the former president Edgar Lungu, died. She represented Chawama in Lusaka but has been stuck dealing with court battles over in South Africa about where to bury her father. The...

Pipeline Estate sits right next to Nairobi's airport, and it looks like absolute chaos with all these cramped high-rise apartment buildings jammed together. The whole neighborhood got built up over the past couple of decades when developers threw up cheap rental units for people moving into the...

Greatman Music and Alice Karonga were feuding on Facebook, exchanging nasty words.

Some sketch Facebook account posted this whole sob story pretending to be Larry Madowo, claiming Tanzanian officials wanted him dead and asking people to send money to some random bank account. The CNN reporter shut that down real quick, saying it was completely fake. The bogus post showed up...

Kenya Pipeline Company just snagged the top spot as Company of the Year, pulling in a 7.1 excellence score. The state-owned pipeline operator beat out everyone else by crushing it across stuff like productivity, innovation, leadership, and environmental responsibility. Their productivity numbers...

Trump just dropped that he's gonna pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the ex-Honduras president who got nailed on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 45 years. The guy helped move massive amounts of cocaine into America, but apparently got treated unfairly, according to Trump's social media...

Some wild gossip started making the rounds that Burna Boy supposedly kicked his mom, Bose Ogulu, out of her manager role. The whole thing blew up after ChaftsAfrica posted what they claimed was the singer's Instagram story about it, and random people on social media started spreading it around...

Kiddwaya from Big Brother Naija says his father, Terry Waya, was the one who found Banana Island over in Lagos. The reality show contestant dropped this tidbit during a podcast appearance, and he admitted he had no clue about it until someone brought it up while he was traveling. Terry Waya...

Comedian Sabinus told VJ Adams his dad wanted him hitting law school instead of making skits, and the whole thing turned into a family drama when pops found out what he was actually doing. The guy studied Linguistics and Communication at the University of Port Harcourt after law school admission...

Actor Taye Arimoro got hit with an indefinite ban from Nigerian film productions after he attacked crew members during a movie shoot and then went online with a fake version of what happened. The Actors Guild of Nigeria teamed up with the Directors Guild and the Association of Movie Producers to...

Hotplate Grill House boss Benson Muneri says the whole food safety scandal at Dinson Iron and Steel Company in Manhize is complete BS tied to upcoming worker committee elections at the mine. He claims sketchy people are pushing fake contamination stories, and the nasty food pics floating around...

A 44-year-old guy from Chatsworth forgot some stuff at the mine shaft and went back to grab it around 1:30 in the morning. His coworker Munyaradzi Mazungu heard a massive crash from the worksite and ran over to check things out, but the victim was already dead at the bottom of the shaft with a...

The Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners shut down death rumors about legendary Yoruba actor Olalere OsunPaimo after Facebook posts claimed the cultural icon had died. National PRO Adejonwo Oluwafemi said the group checked directly with Lere Paimo's wife and confirmed the veteran...

Veteran actor Dr. Akin Lewis thinks African theater can spark cross-cultural conversations as the second TheatreMania Africa Festival drops at Shodex Gardens in Ilupeju and Radisson Blu Hotel in Ikeja. The festival pushes the whole Beyond Borders vibe about how African stage productions connect...

Lagos is about to throw what might be the continent's wildest beach party with 100 DJs spinning back-to-back for 96 straight hours from late December through early January. Afroxela CEO Buchi Henry Mbagwu said the whole thing started when people at a Portugal festival kept asking about Detty...

Canada-based petrochemical engineer Precious Ebie Onungwe ditched his day job to chase music full-time back home in Nigeria. The artist goes by Presh, dropped a debut single already, and has an album dropping before the year wraps up. He teamed up with producer D-Tuns because the guy has worked...

Content creator Oluwademilade Abimbola thinks Nigeria runs the creative scene across the entire African continent. The YouTuber and entrepreneur moved from the UK to Lagos after a two-week trip turned her whole perspective around. She hit parties constantly, met a ton of people, and extended her...