#MeToo movement reached muslim majority
The #MeToo movement is spreading across Muslim-majority northern Nigeria using #ArewaMeToo.
Arewa is the general term used to refer to northern Nigeria - a conservative society with a majority Muslim population where issues surrounding sex and sexuality are rarely discussed publicly.
Betty Abah, the director of the Centre for Children’s Health, Education, Orientation and Protection NGO said she thinks “the bravery of the women [speaking out] is similar to a revolution.”
Rare lion cubs born
Rare white male and female lion cubs have been born in the Taygan Lion Park near Belogorsk in Russia.
This is the second time the mother of the cubs, Milady, has given birth since last year.
The cubs were born several days ago, and are few of the 300 white cubs left in the world, where most of them are kept in captivity.
Review: Dangerous Liaisons at QPAC
Liam Scarlett’s Dangerous Liaisons shows at the Playhouse Theatre, QPAC with Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra from the 22nd March until the 6th April, 2019. This fantastic co-production between Queensland Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater that is currently showing at QPAC all began with Les Liaisons Dangereuses which was written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. What a show and what an opening night to witness this fantastic contemporary take of a work originally from the 1700s.
Tiana Khasi: Meghalaya
- The neosoul scene in Brisbane has been growing in depth and maturity in recent years. One of its strongest players is a well-rounded performer, someone who’s covered a lot of ground while still young; just about everywhere you look in that scene you’ll find her and that person is Tiana Khasi.
Death Club 7: Fata Morgana
- Brisbane has a well-deserved reputation for being a punk paradise. Many will argue that punk was not only invented here but has been nurtured and affirmed for more than forty years. However, there are several other sides to Brisbane’s music scene and nearly all are bubbling away thanks to musicians, barely alive in the latter years of the twentieth century, championing genres that rose and nearly vanished before most of them were born.
Mdou Moctar: Ilana: The Creator
- Ilana: The Creator is the fifth album, but first true studio album, from Mdou Moctar - guitarist and singer from Niger. Mdou is of the nomadic Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert - a culture which these days, if people have heard of it, it's as likely as anything to be because of its guitar music.
Laura Imbruglia: Scared Of You
- Laura Imbruglia’s new record, Scared of You, is her first in six years. On first listen, it’s clear her delivery and structure has matured in the interim, with considerably less cowbell, crisp production and nuanced exploration of multiple genres across the ten tracks. What’s still most exciting, though, is her brash refusal to file down any of the jagged edges that are similarly embraced by many of my favourite fully-grown female musicians - Jen Cloher, Jodie Flange and Patience Hodgson all come to mind.
Various Artists: Nigeria 70: No Wahala - Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987
- When you think about influential music from the West African nation Nigeria, the artist who most obviously comes to mind is the legendary Fela Kuti, whose fusion of local folk and popular music with American-influenced funk and R&B became known as Afrobeat.
Quelle Chris: Guns
- Quelle Chris is Detroit's best kept secret. An underground mainstay for the better half of two decades, Chris has painstakingly built a reputation off album after album of unique concepts, charming lyricism, and colourful production to match. His latest, simply titled Guns, follows up 2017's one-of-a-kind Being You Is Great: a top to bottom deconstruction of Quelle's psyche packing all the emotional depth of an existential crisis into its diverse track listing.
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