Dr Mwenya Kasonde is a medical doctor turned entrepreneur. She studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. She also holds a diploma in Health Economics from University College Dublin. Read More »
Interviews
Piot discovered Ebola 38-years-ago, thought it wasn’t a major public health threat
My lab received a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had died in Zaire. She was diagnosed with yellow fever, but when we isolated the virus, it didn't look like anything we knew. Under the electron microscope it looked like a worm. Read More »
Fela’s Marriage to Twenty-Seven Women was a Noble Act – Oscar-winner Alex Gibney
He was wildly criticised for all these beautiful women who are just hanging out at the Kalakuta Republic. They were being denigrated as whores and never-do-wells. A lot of them were poor. They just wondered into his commune. He said, Well fine, I’ll make them respectable; I’ll marry all of them. Read More »
Mr Ibu: “Professionally, I am an IDIOT”
John Okafor was once a butcher, hairdresser, factory worker, photographer and a football agent Read More »
TINU: Celebrity Singer, Fashion model & Designer
She used to be T-Naija. Remember her? The face of Guinness (with Michael Powers) in billboards all over the world. She is back! But simply as, Tinu. And with a sophomore album, Addicted, that includes an outrageous and over-the-top music video she describes as “a very high-fashion Sex and The City meets Confessions of a Shopaholic.” In a no-holds-barred interview ... Read More »
Peter and Paul as P-Square: Playing the Double Lives
PETER and PAUL OKOYE have come a long way, music wise. First as Smooth Criminals, a group of twelve young boys miming and dancing to the songs of popular international artistes. Then as MMPP, doing a cappella, political jingles and movie sound tracks. And now as the rave-making P-Square Read More »