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RIP Chinua Achebe

Waking up in the morning to news of someone's death - especially that of an icon like Chinua Achebe is all kinds of depressing. He was born in 1930 and died at the age of 82. He has published many popular and influential books, including Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah. His latest work, There Was A Country was published last year and is a detailed account of the Biafran war from his eyes and his participation in it.  His most popular work, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, has Read More

Guess Who America’s Most Hated Woman Is [Allegedly]?

Guess Who America’s Most Hated Woman Is [Allegedly]?

According to the news filtering around the web waves, she is hated for the following reasons: 1.  Being beautiful. 2.  Winning awards 3.  Being cast to sing in a movie (and daring to sing it well) 4.  Apologizing for mistakes she did not make 5.  Dressing so nicely 6.  Being so in love with her husband 7.  Being so darn perfect. Oh, okay. The report is that when you Google search for Anne Hathaway + hate, the results are triple that of when you search for Osama Bin Read More

Which Famous Baby Is This?

The baby on the right is a famous woman today. Can you tell who she is? I'll come back to update you on who she is. Don't worry, I'll keep my word. I won't leave you hanging. Any ideas? If you guess right, there'll be an extra pillow in your room in heaven - assuming you make it there :D UPDATE: Yup! This is indeed FLOTUS, Michelle Obama! (I think I need to make these a little harder) Read More

Hol’ Up! Ryan Seacrest & Julianne Hough Are No Longer Together?

No way!! I know what you must be thinking: Oh, Vera, I didn't know you liked them that much. Well, I don't. I mean, I do. More like, I'm indifferent. I'm happy when I see them together because celebrity relationships are shorter than Keek videos. But these two, they've been together for over three years. That's good. They cited hectic schedules as their reason for break up (sure). But there are other reports of why they broke up. Some say she was too young (24) and she partied a lot. Some Read More

Genevieve Nnaji Gets Tickets To Beyonce’s Concert … And A Fight Breaks Out

Genevieve Nnaji Gets Tickets To Beyonce’s Concert … And A Fight Breaks Out

There I was browsing through my Instagram feed when I noticed that our Genevieve put up a post about getting her tickets to Beyonce's concert. I'm assuming it's the much talked about Mrs. Cater concert. But the picture Genevieve put up is the controversial bow down picture. See, when I heard that Beyonce released a song titled, Bow Down/I Been On, I assumed she'd be singing about being the Queen Bee, being on top, being the best, and everyone else needing to respect her work and Read More

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