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I was not blogging at the time of her passing on March 23, but the death of Elizabeth Taylor cannot go unremarked on Wordsbody, just as I ...

Nollywood star power with more than a little Ghollywood help last night in Nairobi at the Africa Movie Academy Awards' Nominations event...

I was invited to the premiere of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency , held at the BFI Southbank on Tuesday 18th March. But I had to be out of...

"This thing grabs hold of us again, in the wrong place,the wrong time, and we're dead." -Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in Br...

'Perf4ming his greatest hits 4 the last time' - or so the hype says. "You can't handle me," Prince reportedly told tho...

It was a classic blast from the past three weeks ago, when during an episode of Ugly Betty , a friend I'd not seen for 9 years or so cam...

Tonight @ the Curzon Mayfair in London, the actor Danny Glover attends the Gala screening of Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako. The event ...

Now, this is where I didn't know I was going with my Muhammad Ali post of last week, but I don't mind continuing the boxing thread ...

The Dream that died: Robert 'Bobby' Kennedy in Detroit a month before he died. These pictures, from the Weekend Magazine section o...

On the left is Andrea Calderwood, producer of the The Last King of Scotland , the new film about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin starring Forest W...

The 8th Lagos Book & Arts Festival is at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos - from Friday 15 September to Sunday 17th. More details fro...

Kojo, a taxi driver in Ghana, picks up a British tourist, Cynthia who promises to invite him to England. He arrives at her doorstep 4 months...