The Recording Academy Added Three New Categories Under The Pop, Jazz, And African Music Fields For 2024

Getty Image Next year’s Grammy Awards will have a variety of new categories, addressing some of the criticisms that prior ceremonies missed out on crucial opportunities to honor works in genres that are often overlooked by the mainstream tastes of the Recording Academy at large. The Recording Academy added three new categories, including best African …

Video shows African Union's vision to plant a 5,000-mile 'green wall' across the continent

A new video by Our Eden traces the timeline of one of the most ambitious environmental projects in world history, the Great Green Wall in Africa. Eleven countries from the African Union have come together to build a 5,000-mile wall across the entire width of the continent made from trees and grass by 2030. The …

TikTok’s African Savannah Cat Scam Saga, Explained

The phrase “adopt, don’t shop” is a national campaign encouraging aspiring pet owners to rescue their animals from an existing shelter rather than paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a “purebred” breeder that might focus more on profits than an animal’s wellbeing. However, that’s not to say animal shelters can’t scam their customers as …

African Muslims from North Africa conquered and ruled Spain for 781 years! They ruled Spain from 711-1492….

African Muslims from North Africa conquered and ruled Spain for 781 years! They ruled Spain from 711-1492. They (the Berbers) passed through Morocco and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to enter Iberian Peninsula, Spain. They built universities & Mosques in Spain and also made huge contributions to mathematics, medicine, history, chemistry, philosophy, astronomy, botany and …

What if African borders were redrawn doing Decolonization?by…

What if African borders were redrawn doing Decolonization? by u/Aofen It is a popular trope on reddit to blame Africa’s problems on the arbitrariness of its colonial era borders, and how they do not follow ethnolinguistic lines. In our timeline, African nations have almost overwhelmingly agreed to respect their colonial borders out of fear of …