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Next Scheduled Update: 29 November, 2004
This week's cover is an homage to Bollywood actress Malaika Arora-Khan.
STEVE OGAH WITH X-CREW:"Nigeria may well boast of one of the most exciting entertainment -- nay, hiphop -- scenes on the African continent. The country is blessed with abundant talents who are daily coming into the limelight. And as the local media focuses on the existing ones, more [new ones] are gearing up for the big stage. From the heart of Calabar in Cross River, STEVE OGAH brings into global focus a new phenomenon: X-CREW, a musical collective willing to "entertain wherever."
G21: The X-Crew is a collective, how many people make up this group?
Menthol X: The crew is the result of the creative spirits of five foundation members with three others joining. We have Dennis, Klemzy, Emma, Nero, Isaak, Monalisa, and of course - you. [ chuckles]
Denis: Monalisa is the first lady of the X-Nation. ..." READ MORE
BRAD BALFOUR SITS DOWN WITH QUEEN LATIFAH:
"With rapper/actor Queen Latifah's recent successes including a key role in the award-winnng musical "Chicago," this New Jersey native has become the Queen of Rap and has broken through to mainstream acclaim. While her recent mainstream comedy "Taxi" tanked, her production company, Flav Unit ,has produced several chart-topping rap stars. Now she has turned to producing her first feature film.
Though "Cookout" is not masterpiece of social relevance or intellectual commentary, it does tap into the humorous culture clashes that occur with upwardly mobile success.
G21: WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE GOOD AT COMEDY?
QUEEN LATIFAH: There was a lot of humor growing up in my household but was I comedian-funny? No. I still don't think I'm a comedian -- they're naturally gifted -- but I have a good sense of humor and I realized I have pretty good comedic timing. When I was doing "Living Single," people who had been in the business made the observation, that my timing is good and it's hard to get that sometimes even for the best actor. They don't necessarily have that comedic timing. Little things like that let me know I can do this and then, I just know that I laugh and if something is funny, I'm laughing at it and I'm willing to. I'm not one of those people who has to look pretty all the time in a movie, I'm willing to take chances with stuff and, from "Set It Off" on, it was like this was [the]time to take chances and do things differently. If you're going to go there, you might as well go there. ... " READ MORE
BERNARD SABELLA TALKS ABOUT TRANSITIONS:
"Transitions are part of our lives: President Bush's reelection and President Arafat's illness are but two examples. For many there may be no connection between the two transitions but for us Palestinians we see them as intricately interrelated.
Could the second term in office for President Bush signal the implementation of his declared intention, not to say promise, for the establishment of a Palestinian State in 2005? For long the successive US Administrations have neglected the gross injustice that befell the Palestinians as a result of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. For us Palestinians, the US Administrations have never played the role of impartial go-between between Palestinians and Israelis. The pro-Israel sentiments in the White House, in Congress and in other important US sectors are an important input influencing US foreign policy as it relates to the Middle East in general and to the Arab-Israeli conflict, in particular. ... " READ MORE
AAMERA JIWAJI ON THE ROAD":"Road trip: September 2004
My religious leader, Syedna, arrived in Dar [As Salaam] last week Wednesday for a few days so everyone from East Africa -- stretching as far up as Mauritius and Madagascar and as far down as South Africa -- gathered together for four days. Even for those of us who just had to hop across the Tanzanian border, it was an extremely long trip. I left Nairobi on Thursday morning at 6:30am and reached Dar at 2am the next morning ä slow driving, punctures, police checks, corrupt police officers, the typical Indian pace of stopping everywhere to go to the loo or for a quick cup of tea ä and the worst of it was our bus' lights were discovered not to be working just as the sun set so a quick repair job was taken on with borrowed pliers and a fruit knife -- absolutely exhausting.
Tanzania has a very safe policy of no public vehicles being allowed on the road after ten at night. Very safe that is if it worked but with the cavalier police attitude in Africa quite a few vehicles were on the road after ten, having slipped the cops twenty thousand Tanzanian shillings (around US $25). Those vehicles included our bus; corruption and bribery is mother's milk to a Kenyan. ... " READ MORE
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