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En 2023, le classement des 100 personnalités féminines les plus puissantes de la planète met en lumière des femmes exceptionnelles, dont quatre Africaines qui brillent par leur influence et leur leadership. Ces femmes, issues de divers horizons et secteurs d'activité, jouent un rôle essentiel dans la transformation et l'émancipation de leurs communautés et de leurs pays respectifs. 1. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala : La voix du Nigeria à l'OMC Classée à la 87e place, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, directrice générale de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), incarne la force et la détermination. Originaire du Nigeria, elle a évolué dans les cercles de pouvoir après des études aux États-Unis, devenant la première femme ministre des Finances de son pays en 2003. Son engagement indéfectible dans la lutte contre la corruption et la réduction de la dette publique a marqué l'histoire politique du Nigeria. 2. Mpumi Madisa : L'icône du leadership sud-africain Au 88e rang, Mpumi Madisa, PDG du groupe Bidvest en Afrique du Sud, inscrit son nom dans l'histoire économique du continent. À la tête de ce conglomérat majeur depuis 2020, elle dirige près de 130 000 employés dans des secteurs aussi divers que l'industrie, la pharmacie, l'automobile et le transport. En tant que femme noire à la tête d'une entreprise cotée en bourse, elle incarne le changement et la diversité dans le monde des affaires sud-africain. 3. Samia Suluhu Hassan : La présidente visionnaire de la Tanzanie À la 93e place, Samia Suluhu Hassan, première femme présidente de la Tanzanie, mérite toute notre attention. Surnommée "Mama Samia", elle a fait ses débuts en tant que première femme vice-présidente du pays, avant d'accéder à la présidence en mars 2021. Son parcours, marqué par des responsabilités au sein du Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations unies et à l'Assemblée nationale tanzanienne, illustre sa dévotion envers le service public et le développement de son pays. 4. Mo Abudu : La pionnière du cinéma nigérian À la 98e place, Mo Abudu, fondatrice et directrice d'EbonyLife au Nigeria, fait figure de figure emblématique dans le domaine de la production audiovisuelle. Lancée dans cette industrie en 2006, elle est rapidement devenue la "Oprah d'Afrique" avec son émission Moments with Mo. Son influence s'est étendue avec le lancement d'EbonyLife TV en 2012 et la création de EbonyLife Films en 2014, la propulsant au rang de productrice de cinéma la plus célèbre de Nollywood. Ces femmes africaines du classement Forbes 2023 incarnent la diversité, l'innovation et la persévérance. Leur impact transcende les frontières, contribuant à redéfinir le leadership mondial et inspirant les générations futures à atteindre de nouveaux sommets.

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Family Ties Take Center Stage in Idris Elba's Nigerian Short Film

Move over Hollywood, Nollywood's got Idris Elba at the helm for a brand new short film called "Dust To Dreams"! This ain't your average love story, though. We're talkin' about a mother-daughter reunion with a twist, set against the vibrant backdrop of Lagos, Nigeria. Yup, you heard that right. Idris Elba, the dude who brought us Luther and stole the show in countless other flicks, is stepping behind the camera to direct this project. This is a big deal for Nollywood, the powerhouse film industry of Nigeria, and for African cinema in general. Africa's been churning out incredible films for years, but they often don't get the shine they deserve. So, having a huge star like Elba involved is a major step towards global recognition. A Story of Family and Lagos Magic The plot of "Dust To Dreams" focuses on a complex family dynamic. A teenage daughter gets ready to meet her father for the first time, and let's just say it's bound to be an emotional rollercoaster. Throw in the electrifying energy of Lagos, and you've got a recipe for a powerful short film. Elba's not the only big name attached to "Dust To Dreams." The cast is stacked with Nollywood stars like Nse Ikpe-Etim and Eku Edewor, who are gonna bring their A-game to the screen. Plus, we've got Seal, yes, the Grammy-winning singer, stepping outside the music world and into a dramatic role. This is definitely a project to keep your eye on. A Collaboration for the Culture "Dust To Dreams" is a collaboration between Mo Abudu's EbonyLife Films and the African Export-Import Bank. This is a big win for African cinema because it shows the power of collaboration. With heavy hitters working together, we can expect some seriously high-quality content coming out of Africa. This Idris Elba-directed short film is just the tip of the iceberg. Elba and Abudu joined forces last year to develop a whole slate of African films and TV shows. That means we can expect even more amazing stories coming out of Africa, showcasing the continent's rich culture and talent. So, mark your calendars, movie lovers! "Dust To Dreams" might be a short film, but it has the potential to be a game-changer for African cinema. We can't wait to see what Idris Elba cooks up on the streets of Lagos. Source: Deadline   Read the full article

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Idris Elba & Mo Abudu Forge African TV & Film Partnership

Idris Elba and Mo Abudu have partnered on a landmark initiative to “empower and uplift talent from Africa and the Diaspora.” The Luther star’s Green Door Pictures will tie with Abudu’s EbonyLife Media on the plan – the first of its kind in the continent – which will feature a development slate of TV and film projects along with continent-wide training programs. The partnership takes a two-fold…

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Mo Abudu, Betty Irabor, Funmi Iyanda, others to speak at Back Mentor's Women Conference

Dozens of prominent Nigerian professionals in the media, finance, entertainment, human rights and other sectors have confirmed their readiness to attend and speak at the 2023 Self-made Woman Conference being organized by The Black Mentor. Media Mogul, Mo Abudu, CEO of Ebonylife Media would be at the event as keynote Speaker while others expected to speak are publisher and author, Betty Irabor, TV…

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Ebuka Obi-Uchendu Net Worth, Biography, Career, Family and Age

Chukwuebuka Obi-Uchendu is a Nigerian lawyer and media personality. He is best known for hosting Big Brother Naija, the long-running Rubbin’ Minds talk show on Channels TV, and co-hosting The Spot and Men’s Corner on Ebonylife television. He also represents brands such as Budweiser Nigeria, Samsung Nigeria, PorkMoney, and 2Sure Nigeria. In this article, RNN details Ebuka’s net worth, biography,…

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Nigerian Producer Mo Abudu joins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Nigerian Producer Mo Abudu joins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences #Oscars

Celebrated Nigerian filmmaker, broadcaster, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Mo Abudu, has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, (Oscars), as one of 29 producers, and the only African and Nigerian in this category. Abudu, who is CEO and Chairwoman of EbonyLife Media which includes EbonyLife TV, EbonyLife Studios, EbonyLife Films, EbonyLife Place, EbonyLife…

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Ebonylife TV Presenter Cynthia Kamalu weds Obi | #WeareWan17

Ebonylife TV Presenter Cynthia Kamalu weds Obi | #WeareWan17

Ebonylife TV presenter, Cynthia Kamalu announced last week that she was getting married to Obi. The couple had their traditional wedding on the 28th of October, 2017. The bride shared pre-wedding pictures by photographer, Laah Studioswith us. We love their all white theme studio pre-wedding session. See pictures from their pre-wedding shoot and first photos from the traditional wedding, which…

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Family Ties Take Center Stage in Idris Elba's Nigerian Short Film

Move over Hollywood, Nollywood's got Idris Elba at the helm for a brand new short film called "Dust To Dreams"! This ain't your average love story, though. We're talkin' about a mother-daughter reunion with a twist, set against the vibrant backdrop of Lagos, Nigeria. Yup, you heard that right. Idris Elba, the dude who brought us Luther and stole the show in countless other flicks, is stepping behind the camera to direct this project. This is a big deal for Nollywood, the powerhouse film industry of Nigeria, and for African cinema in general. Africa's been churning out incredible films for years, but they often don't get the shine they deserve. So, having a huge star like Elba involved is a major step towards global recognition. A Story of Family and Lagos Magic The plot of "Dust To Dreams" focuses on a complex family dynamic. A teenage daughter gets ready to meet her father for the first time, and let's just say it's bound to be an emotional rollercoaster. Throw in the electrifying energy of Lagos, and you've got a recipe for a powerful short film. Elba's not the only big name attached to "Dust To Dreams." The cast is stacked with Nollywood stars like Nse Ikpe-Etim and Eku Edewor, who are gonna bring their A-game to the screen. Plus, we've got Seal, yes, the Grammy-winning singer, stepping outside the music world and into a dramatic role. This is definitely a project to keep your eye on. A Collaboration for the Culture "Dust To Dreams" is a collaboration between Mo Abudu's EbonyLife Films and the African Export-Import Bank. This is a big win for African cinema because it shows the power of collaboration. With heavy hitters working together, we can expect some seriously high-quality content coming out of Africa. This Idris Elba-directed short film is just the tip of the iceberg. Elba and Abudu joined forces last year to develop a whole slate of African films and TV shows. That means we can expect even more amazing stories coming out of Africa, showcasing the continent's rich culture and talent. So, mark your calendars, movie lovers! "Dust To Dreams" might be a short film, but it has the potential to be a game-changer for African cinema. We can't wait to see what Idris Elba cooks up on the streets of Lagos. Source: Deadline   Read the full article

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In 1937, mixed race children living in the Rhineland were tracked down by the Gestapo and sterilized on "secret order." Some were later the subject of medical experiments, while others vanished.

"There were known to be around 800 Rhineland children at the time," says historian Eve Rosenhaft, professor of German Historical Studies, at the University of Liverpool.

It was a little known part of Holocaust history until Mo Abudu, chief executive of Nigerian media network EbonyLife TV, read an online article by Rosenhaft on the plight of these children.

"When I read about it [the article] I just thought we need to put this to screen," says Abudu. "There are many children in that era born of African and German parentage and I felt what happened to those people. Their stories are totally untold."

...In developing the film's plot, she commissioned scriptwriter Nicole Brown to further investigate.

"Essentially these children were pulled from school, off the streets and bundled into vans, taken to medical facilities and sterilized," says Brown.

...Taking the extremely scarce autobiographies of Afro German survivors as its inspiration, the film's script follows the relationship of a fictionalized mixed race couple living in Nazi Germany, and their fight to save their child.

...One of the stories [Brown] came across in her research was that of Theodor Wonja Michael.

Today, Michael lives in Cologne surrounded by his grandchildren. This would not have been the case had the Nazis won.

"Our family did not differ from [any] habits of other families in Germany," the 92-year-old told CNN. "I was then not aware of the complication of mixed [race] families because this was normality in my early life."

It wasn't until Adolf Hitler rose to power that Michael and his family would be stripped of their German passports and rendered stateless.

Under the 1935 Nuremberg laws mixed marriages were banned.

Although not sterilized, Michael ended up in a forced labor camp when he was 18.

Born in 1925, he was the youngest son of an African and a white German mother. His father, Theophilus Wonja Michael had arrived in 1894 from Cameroon (then part of the German empire) to study and work.

Upon arrival, Michael's father would quickly realize the only occupation available was playing the "exotic African" in human exhibition shows. The whole family would later take part, including Michael and his three siblings.

"Völkerschau" translated as "human shows," stems from the 15th century. According to research by German historian Anne Dreesbach, world explorers such as Christopher Columbus brought "exotic" native people home for display.

Wild animal merchant Carl Hagenbeck popularized "Völkerschau" in Germany in 1874. He struck upon the idea of an exhibition where you could see animals and humans from lands afar in their "natural" state.

By the 1930s, Dreesbach says there were some 400 human exhibitions in Germany.

...As second and third generation Afro Germans began to take part in the exhibitions, many of the dances and mannerisms they displayed to the amusements of crowds were stereotypes, believes Robbie Aitken, a historian at Sheffield Hallam University.

...Michael described the experience as being "a German in a grass skirt."

"We walked around in exotic dress and played Africa," he told German documentary series 'Schwarz Rot Gold.'

In 1941, black children were officially excluded from public schools as part of the law that had banned Jewish children. They weren't permitted to go on to high school, university or professional training.

By the 1940s, the Africa shows shut down. Unable to get a formal education, Michael began to work as an extra in propaganda films, which glorified Germany's past empire and racial superiority.

Despite being German-born, Michael was marched with other Afro Germans into a forced labor camp near Berlin to work as a "foreign" laborer in 1943.

"I think they didn't know what to do with me. They could have done worse, put me in a concentration camp, but they had no legal grounds to arrest me."

At the camp he lived in constant fear of having to see a doctor and consequently being sterilized.

Theoretically he could have tried to escape, says Michael. Others had attempted to do so. But where would he go?

"Because of my African appearance it was impossible to make a single step in the then white world, without being noticed every time by everyone," he says...

...They [also] looked at the life of Afro German Gert Schramm, who shares a story similar story to Michael's.

Born in 1928 in the sweeping medieval city of Erfurt in East Germany, Schramm was the child of an African-American father and German mother at a time when racial tensions had begun to simmer.

At 15, he became a "political prisoner" in Buchenwald concentration camp and was threatened with sterilization.

On the reason for his internment, "all the evidence suggests it really was because he was mixed blood," says Rosenhaft.

His friend, Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, recalls Schramm telling her, "at 5 a.m. in the morning they would be told to line up. ...

"He remembered one morning they were there 'til 11 a.m. just standing there outside in the snow and it was so very cold and they'd had no food or water. Daily they were given something resembling soup but it was not soup."...

"It was important what angle we had in the story," she says. "Getting the script right took months," adds Abudu. There were 15 weeks of revisions. Brown believes one of the reasons these stories were sidelined for so long was the numbers affected.

"You are talking about millions of Jewish people dying at the hands of Hitler ... in the greater scheme of the Holocaust and how many children perished, it sounds horrible to say the words, but 800 mixed race children doesn't sound a lot, but that's still 800 children, regardless, that many people around the world didn't know existed," she says.

Another "problem is that the Nazis destroyed a lot of their records. There's not many black people left in Germany post 1945 who could then have been asked about what happened to them. There is no visible community as such by that point," adds Aitken...

[Read Nosmot Gbadamosi’s full piece at CNN]

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“I bought a new car so I could kill myself” - Entertainment Executive, Ubi Franklin

“I bought a new car so I could kill myself” – Entertainment Executive, Ubi Franklin

“I bought a new car so I could kill myself” – Entertainment Executive, Ubi Franklin

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New video Falz - Moving Mad (Chief Daddy OST)

New video Falz - Moving Mad (Chief Daddy OST):

Ebony Life TV releases the video for Moving Mad, the soundtrack for the studio’s latest movie, Chief Daddy. 

The song is performed by Falz. He plays the hilarious would-be rapper Famzy, who is convinced he’s heading for Grammy and Oscar stardom.

ALSO: PHOTOS: Olamide, Timaya, Falz, Davido, Burna Boy and more shut down Lagos with the Hennessey Artistry 2018 Finale Concert

The reality is however…

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PHOTOS : Mo Abudu, Dakore Egbuson Akande, Eku Edewor, Denola Grey celebrate EbonyLife at 5

PHOTOS : Mo Abudu, Dakore Egbuson Akande, Eku Edewor, Denola Grey celebrate EbonyLife at 5

Over the weekend, EbonyLife celebrated their 5th anniversary, the unveiling of their new identity as well as the launch of their new video-on-demand service,EbonyLife ON.

Spotted at the event were Mo Abudu, Eunice Omole, Heidi Uys, Mimi Onalaja. Tosin Odunfa, Temidayo Abudu and some of the cast of new legal drama Castle & Castle; Dakore Egbuson Akande, Eku Edewor, Denola Grey, Ade Laoye, Amanda…