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USA – R. Kelly goes to jail… He may stay there for a long time

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For a long time, we thought that Robert Sylvester Kelly, that’s his name in civil status, was a nice guy, without trouble. But on June 29, 2022, a “tease” – Don’t be offended; in prison slang, it refers to the judge – of the New York Federal Court ruled: the 55-year-old rapper risks spending the rest of his life in jail. He just took 30 years.

Episodes of a fall
R. Kelly was not a convicted offender. He did not have a garage bill, a loaded record. We had never established a connection between him any gang. Just a couple of things, pretty mundane in the life of a black American rapper. So! How did we get here?
The man’s legal troubles began in December 2000. A great investigation report, damning, the pin: he would have had sex with the singer Tiffany Hawkins then 15 years old. But his lawyers are tenacious. They exonerate him. Two years later, he’s charged with child pornography. In March 2003, a video in which the singer urinates on a miner goes around the world. The garbage! But, as if by magic, the American justice acquits her. Even with the evidence in front of them. In 2018, with the MeeToo movement, the story resurfaces. A real feminist revolution. Every woman has to “drop a pig” into the media pit. R. Kelly happens to be the pig that comes back into the mouths of many women. The tongues loosen. The storm breaks. The rapper will not have time to take cover.

Surviving R. Kelly, the cataclysmal doc
“Surviving R. Kelly” is a smashing documentary. When it came out in 2019, it was a buzz; R. Kelly got it all. Everyone fell on him. For the man who sang, “I believe, I can fly”, the return to reality will be hard. The rapper is described by his victims as a “sexual predator”. By the prosecutor’s office as “reckless”, “manipulative”. RCA Records, his label that remained faithful to him until then, let him down. Around him, everything collapses. The singer wants to restore his image. He gives a mind-boggling interview to CBS: he freaks out in front of the whole world. This loss of self-control condemns him in the eyes of the public. It is Icarus who burns his wings.

R. Kelly bites the dust, the fall of a star
During the trial, and even at the announcement of the verdict, R. Kelly never “collapsed”, he confessed nothing of the sagouineries that were reproached to the end. Several people, victims of the rapper, young people, at the time of the events, were heard. Apparently when he appeared in court that day, wearing dark glasses, a black mask and his gorgeous khaki top, he did not expect that verdict. Maybe he thought he was getting away with it. The prosecution charged him with nine counts. We won’t list them all, but the most important one was: trafficking in human beings for the purpose of abuse. Clearly, if R. Kelly’s crimes have been ignored so far, it is evidence that there has been an emotional shift and decades of moral and political transformation to bring us to this point.

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CAMEROON – Wedding of Charlotte Dipanda with Fernand Lopez

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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 /Fernand Lopez @Crédit photo : Page Facebook Charlotte Dipanda

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.

Charlotte Dipanda /Fernand Lopez @Crédit photo : Page Facebook Charlotte Dipanda

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.

Charlotte Dipanda /Fernand Lopez @Crédit photo : Page Facebook Charlotte Dipanda
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SENEGAL – Pikine Saliou Bèye’s child found his half in the name of Bineta Lô

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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:

Monsieur et Madame Bèye
Monsieur et Madame Bèye
Madame Bèye
Monsieur et Madame Bèye
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MUSIC-IN – Stunning photos of Ngaala Blindé !

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“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.

Ngaala Blindé @Capture photo page Facebook Ngaala Blindé
Ngaala Blindé @Capture photo page Facebook Ngaala Blindé
Ngaala Blindé @Capture photo page Facebook Ngaala Blindé
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