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Worst Movies of the Year (So Far)

These films bombed at the box office and left critics and fans alike shaking their heads. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the most derided films that have been released (so far) in 2024.

today23 February, 2024

Entertainment

Why does a leap year have 366 days?

Leap Day is coming. Marvin Samuel Tolentino Pineda/iStock, via Getty images Bhagya Subrayan, Purdue University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why does a leap year have 366 days? Does the Earth move slower every four years? – Aarush, age 8, Milpitas, California You may be used to hearing that it […]

today21 February, 2024

Africa

Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona

    By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford   The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy. Yet the novel is today considered by many as one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century and is studied at universities around the world. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down. Dangarembga […]

today20 February, 2024

Africa

From Dreaming to Drawing: Omotunde Akiode’s Journey from Screenwriter to Acclaimed Animator

      By Gbemisola Esho, via bird story agency   Omotunde Akiode sits at her workstation in Lagos, appearing to doodle. To the occasional visitor, this may look like play but the result of the creative session will be a very real cartoon character, possibly for an acclaimed African cartoon series -- like Supa4. “I grew up watching Sesame Street, the Muppet show animations on television. I saw the […]

today15 February, 2024

Entertainment

2024 Superbowl breaks viewership records

Not sure if you’ve watched Usher's performance...rollerskate dancing, Alicia Keys, and Lil John...But this year's Superbowl was the most watched television broadcast since the 1969 Moon landing. According to preliminary television ratings between 125 to 150 million people tuned into the annual spectacular. But who or what did they come to watch? Football, Usher, or Taylor Swift? Jody Jacobs reports.

today14 February, 2024

Entertainment

100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power

  By Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, University of Nairobi; Marissa J. Moorman, Indiana University; Modestus Fosu, Ghana Institute of Journalism, and Stanley Tsarwe, University of Namibia   Radio is thriving across Africa. Exact figures are difficult to come by because audience research differs across countries. But studies estimate radio listenership to be between 60% and 80% of the continent’s […]

today13 February, 2024