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USA: Oprah Winfrey offers $12 million to cities affected by covid-19
ZE-AFRICANEWS – $12 million is the envelope that featured host Oprah Winfrey donated to several cities affected by Covid-19. Five municipalities are involved: Kosciusko in Mississippi, his hometown of Nashville, Chicago, Milwaukee and Baltimore.
As a reminder, Oprah Winfrey was recorded in Chicago until 2011. Nashville is the city where her career began in the 1970s. Milwaukee is where she lived with her mother Vernita Lee. In Baltimore, she built her media empire. And finally Kosciusko, in Mississippi is his birthplace.
As a reminder, Oprah Winfrey was recorded in Chicago until 2011. Nashville is the city where her career began in the 1970s. Milwaukee is where she lived with her mother Vernita Lee. In Baltimore, she built her media empire. And finally Kosciusko, in Mississippi is his birthplace.
Live Healthy Chicago, Nashvillenurtures, Sainta and the Boys and Girls Club of East Mississippi are the organizations that will be mandated to distribute funds to financially support affected communities and prevent devastation.
12 millions de dollars c’est l’enveloppe que l’animatrice vedette Oprah Winfrey a donné à plusieurs villes touchées par le Covid-19. Cinq municipalités sont concernées à savoir Kosciusko dans le Mississipi, sa ville natale, Nashville, Chicago, Milwaukee et Baltimore.
Other action for Opray Winfrey, she made a plea to convince other personalities, rich and influential celebrities to put their hands in the pocket to support families hard hit by the health crisis with unprecedented economic repercussions in the homes of middle classes because she says: “The reason I decided to talk about it is that I think people who have a lot of money will have to take matters into their own hands. Even when this virus is gone, there will still be devastation for those people who can’t work and couldn’t work for months, who lived day to day on their wages, who have used all their savings, these people are going to need help.”
According to Oprah Winfrey, this financial assistance will allow families or people who will benefit from it to be able to fend for themselves or create opportunities to get by. “I always thought it was better to teach someone to fish… but sometimes some people absolutely need a fish and a piece of bread,” she said.
It should be noted that Oprah Winfrey is also an actress, she was nominated for the Oscars. It was ranked the richest African-American personality of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African-American of all time, and is the richest black billionaire in the world.
Photo credit: Oprah Winfrey facebook page
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CAMEROON – Wedding of Charlotte Dipanda with Fernand Lopez
A lively controversy on the web the day after the celebration of their union. The Cameroonian singer is in the subjects of discussion the day after her civil marriage with Fernand Lopez celebrated Saturday, April 15, 2023. Charlotte Dipanda is being called a hypocrite because of an old interview that just surfaced.
The wedding of the famous Cameroonian singer, Charlotte Dipanda, with Fernand Lopez, her long-time companion, has made the headlines on social networks since this weekend. But this celebration was not well received by everyone, as some Internet users pulled out an interview with the star in which she said she was not interested in marriage.
Indeed, the 37-year-old singer gave an interview a few months ago, in which she criticized marriage by stating that all married couples she knew were unhappy. She also stated that marriage was not an end in itself or a goal to be achieved. I, all married people I know, are unhappy. Just to tell you that for me, marriage, as you define it, is not an end in itself, it is not a goal or something that prevents me from sleeping at night. I think I may even be on the right track. Because sometimes, when it is done, we realize that we no longer give ourselves as before or fight in the same way. I like the idea that my man is afraid of losing me, that he doesn’t take me for granted,” she said in an interview with an Ivorian media outlet in August 2022.
Charlotte Dipanda caught up in her past?
Very quickly, these statements provoked strong reactions from some Internet users, who called the singer a hypocrite. They objected to her criticizing marriage in public, when she clearly intended to marry. It is unacceptable for them to criticize something publicly and then celebrate it in private.
Here are people who misunderstood marriage during the day, on television sets, in the newspapers through interviews and who, at night, prepare to celebrate it, You shouted strong woman. I don’t need a husband to thrive. Today you are Mrs Lopez, the girls who looked at you as a model who are not star enough suitors like you and you had not thought of them. I am not against your happiness but avoid conveying messages that are not wise», we can read among other things in the comments.
These comments have sparked heated debates on social networks, with some Internet users defending Charlotte Dipanda, stressing that a person’s opinions and choices can change over time. Others took the singer’s side by saying that she had the right to change her mind and make the decision to marry.
Anyway, Charlotte Dipanda finally took the plunge and officially married Fernand Lopez last weekend. The singer officially became the wife of Fernand Lopez Owonyebe, a veteran of mixed Cameroonian-French martial art and current MMA coach. The couple did civil marriage this Saturday, April 15, 2023 about five months after the traditional marriage.
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SENEGAL – Pikine Saliou Bèye’s child found his half in the name of Bineta Lô
Saliou Béye is a native of Pikine, the conscious suburb, for years he lives in the United States precisely in Chicago where he is an entrepreneur.
They said “YES” to him and his cousin Bineta Lo. The wedding was celebrated last week in Thiés, Senegal, during her holiday in the presence of two families, friends, neighbours and colleagues. The entire editorial staff of Ze-Africanews through its director wishes him a happy marriage and much happiness to the young couple.
Some images of the marriage of Saliou Béye and Binta Lô:
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MUSIC-IN – Stunning photos of Ngaala Blindé !
“He’s a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, “This is a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, here is the sentence that Ngaala Blindé wrote on her Facebook page with amazing photos!
But who is Ngaala Blindé?
Ngaaka Blinde, whose real name is Baba Ndiaye, is a young Senegalese rapper born in 1994 in Medina Gounass (Guédiawaye) working-class district of Dakarois. Raised by his grandfather, he grew up with his three brothers and younger sister. Its stage name refers to the words “Ngaaka” (Marine species and/or ignorant) and “Blinde” as the word indicates. Passionate about Hip Hop from a young age, he began writing his first texts at the age of 9 under the influence of his master Mr NIANG of the Pikine 16 school in Guédiawaye Sham. He began his career by joining the rap group Young Star. He was selected in the same year in the TV show «Hip Hop Feeling» of Fata, participated in the second edition of «Hip Hop Discover» initiated by Simon Jolof4life and in the caravan tour of the group Bat’HaillonsBlin-Den 2012. The accumulation of all these experiences allowed the young Ngaaka to become the winner of the first edition of Flow UP (2013), a rap contest organized by the Africulturban Association in order to promote young rappers in expansion.
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