Saartje’s predicament embodied issues of racism, sexism and colonialism.

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When Saartje (Sara) Baartman left the shores of Africa, little did she know that her body parts would be returned to her home land 187 years later and that she would fuel the racist notions of black inferiority and black female sexuality in Europe. Dubbed "The Hottentot Venus," she was exhibited as a freak and, in the process, juxtaposed against white ideals of superiority and sexuality. Initially, she was paraded naked at different venues around London and due to agitation by anti-slavery advocates, was taken to Paris. Saartje's predicament embodied issues of racism, sexism and colonialism.

Born in 1789 in the Eastern Cape of present-day South Africa, Saartje was a member of the Khoisan group, the original inhabitants of southern Africa. The Khoisan, pejoratively referred to as the Hottentots, are honey-colored and steatopygic—that is, fat is stored in their buttocks. Europeans viewed the latter feature to be an abnormality and an attestation of racial inferiority.

While in her teens, Saartje migrated to an area near Cape Town, where she was a farmer's slave until she was bought in Cape Town by William Dunlop, a doctor on a British ship. At age 20, Saartje headed for London with Dr. Dunlop where, it was agreed, that they would get rich by displaying her body to Europeans, catering to Europeans' sexual fascination with aboriginal peoples.

Prancing in the nude, with her jutting posterior and extraordinary genitals, she provided the foundation for racist and pseudo-scientific theories regarding black inferiority and black female sexuality. The shows involved Saartje being "led by her keeper and exhibited like a wild beast, being obliged to walk, stand or sit as ordered." Saartje's predicament drew the attention of a young Jamaican, Robert Wedderburn, who agitated against slavery and racism. Subsequently, his group pressured the attorney general to stop this circus. Losing the case on a technicality, Saartje spent four years in London and then went to Paris where she was exhibited in a travelling circus, and seen frequently controlled by an animal trainer in the show.

It was here that she crossed paths with George Cuvier, Napoleon's surgeon-general, who was also considered to be the dean of comparative anatomy. In his capacity of social anthropologist, he arrogantly and erroneously concluded that she was the missing link. She turned to prostitution and when she died poor in 1816, almost immediately Cuvier had her body cast in wax, dissected and the skeleton articulated. Her organs, including her genitals and brains, were preserved in bottles of formaldehyde. Her remains were displayed at the Musée de L'Homme in Paris until 1974.

In post-apartheid South Africa, efforts were made to retrieve Saartje's remains. In 1994, then-President Nelson Mandela appealed to his French counterpart, but it was not until 2002 that the French Senate approved a bill for repatriation of Saartje's remains to South Africa. In May 2002, her remains were brought home to South Africa after nearly 200 years of humiliation and abuse. In August 2002, she was finally laid to rest in the Eastern Cape.
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Black History page) 

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Regina Askia denies penning down angry letter to Femi-F.Kayode

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Contrary to wide-spread belief that Regina Askia penned down a bitter letter to Femi-Fani -Kayode regarding the controversial naming of Igbo ladies he had been intimate with, she has come-out to deny this on her facebook wall..but she still passes across some strong points

(Read her disclaimer below)

"May I seize this time to thank all my fans especially my Yoruba friends for their support through this very annoying ordeal. It’s sad that some hungry blogger can up and publish anything and append anyone’s name to it thinking they can remain faceless behind social media but thankfully through the same means and your vigorous support we were able to turn that around. I thank my reps for wise counsel and for swiftly identifying the faceless cowards even though these individuals proved to be of little consequence hence no wasting of resources in legal pursuit – at this time.

 

 

In the same spirit of love and cooperation, I would request that my generation of Nigerians wholeheartedly reject the notion of tribalism, xenophobia, hedonism and nepotism being displayed by our men and women in power. For how can we explain beggars and the destitute being deported from one part of their country to another as opposed to the government investing in better social services, how can we explain an individual having his home sealed for purportedly speaking up against an injustice, how can condemn a whole tribe of people because of injustices of years before most of us were born? Did you guys see the violence when a member of the house hit another on the head with a mace, did you hear the utterances of BokoHaram having enough fire power to on the US (Im sorry but I had to laugh at that one). We fought a bitter war in the late 60’s the scars of which we all bear to date and these careless statements and attitudes will do nothing but eventually lead to another. It is time to call our leaders to order. We saw the genocide in Rwanda and the degeneration of the society of Congo. It would be real easy for the “Big Brother countries” of this world to come and help us get our house in order since we cannot do it by ourselves (soft invasion). We need to stop and refocus. Finally I always say you can tell who a person is just by listening to their utterances for out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh. I don’t think its right that a mother would call another person’s child, a bastard, nor should a woman call another a slut. Real gentlemen do not kiss and tell, a well-bred and cultured person has tact enough to tell you to go to hell and have you looking forward to that trip. Let us each be at this time the change we want to see. Till then I remain – The ultimate Sisi Eko (because Lagos is where I was born an partly raised) of a proud Akwa Ibom lineage, totally Nigerian to boot, living as a citizen of the world in the United States of America. Deal with it!!

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!! One Love."

 

Read the letter which was claimed she wrote below

I’ve Just Been Told That Having séx With An Igbo Woman Is A Great Accomplishment!!! After reading another hard-drug-influenced-essay by the Yoruba idiot parading himself as Femi Fani-Kayode,Ex-Minister of the Nigerian Federation, I felt there was no need to blame him for giving us another reason why his family members should as a matter of urgency, BUNDLE HIM BACK TO A REHAB! No!

 

 

 

I don’t blame Femi Fani-Kayode for having a fun-filled day telling us how he ‘breezed’ through Bianca Onoh before our very revered Eze-Igbo married her… I blame Bianca Onoh , Chioma Anasoh & Adaobi Uchegbu for being naive or to have rather stooped so low to have intimate relationship with a Yoruba rascal/urchin/idiot whom i’m very sure was on heavy use of cocaine (and still is) at the time!

 

Were Bianca, Chioma & Adaobi blind to Femi’s madness/drug-addiction or maybe he flashed his Ministerial/Ex-Ministerial portfolio to entice them? This is the first time a former public figure (I blame Former President Obasanjo for giving him that privilege) has preferred to reel out the names of women he had séx with, in a bid to show-off how he has been able to conquer tribalism in Nigeria or maybe trying to tell others he has been able to have séx with one of the prettiest ex beauty queens another tribe may boast of, like Bianca Ojukwu (Nee Onoh) of the Igbo tribe.

 

 

Some persons have advised that Femi Fani-Kayode should be ignored due to his MENTAL INSTABILITY but i say NO to it! I will not ignore him because when a mad-man chases one into his house & still want to exhibit that madness there, the owner of the house will definitely react except he doesn’t value his house!

 

This has taken a tribal angle & its such a shame that many Yorubas have been applauding Fani-Kayode’s spiteful comments against the Igbo. I may not want to generalize the behavioural disorders of even the average Yoruba, but i want to use this ample opportunity to remind our single Igbo sisters that if “He” is not Igbo, He can’t be like an Igbo-man who won’t be so ridiculous to think that giving us some of the names of our ladies he had séx with makes him a superman, as Femi Kayode must be ‘thinking’ in his fool’s paradise.

Right now in Nigeria, the likes of a Yoruba bastard like Femi Fani-Kayode have proved that Igbo women should think “wisely” in making choices as regards whom they allow ‘ACCESS’ to their much fancied bodies. An Igboman would NEVER do what Femi Fani-Kayode did with the names of Bianca Ojukwu (Nee Onoh), PDP’s Adaobi Uchegbu & the relatively unknown Chioma Anasoh or even women from other tribes. He typically exhibited behavioural disorder of the Yorubas, which is to them, a normal way of life. What a shame!

Bianca Ojukwu & the other two ladies should as a matter of urgency, reply Femi Fani-Kayode’s show of lunacy, stupidity, foolishness, infantile reasoning & utter disrespect for them!

 

Femi Fani-Kayode consciously & gladly made a spiteful remark of Igbo women & our women should take the fight to him in a very deserving impudent manner! I am waiting for the responses by Bianca, Adaobi & Chioma.

 

By the way, I never knew men from other tribes take having séx with an Igbo lady as a great feat… Bianca & others should hold their heads high up

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The untold love story between Bianca Ojukwu and Femi Fani-Kayode

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Not many are aware that former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-kayode and former beauty queen, Mrs Bianca Onoh were heading for the altar in the late 80’s, but the wheels of their love life was clogged by an unexpected event.

Bianca Odinaka Olivia Onoh, the sixth child of Late Chief Christian Chukwuma Onoh, the second republic governor of the of the old Anambra state, had met Femi Fani-kayode while she was studying for her A- levels in Cambridge Tutorial College. The latter was also attending the University of Cambridge for his Master’s Degree programme in law.

Sources revealed that the beauty was already a queen before they met. Bianca had won the MISS MARTINI, a beauty pageant organized by the beverage company known as Martini Rossi, while schooling at Yorkshire in England. Then, Femi, whose father was the second Queen’s Counsel{Senior Advocate of Nigeria} that Nigeria produced, was finishing his Master’s programme, while Bianca was settling down for her combined honours degree in Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Buckingham.

The two later found each other in Nigeria. While Femi had finished the youth service programme, Bianca had also transferred to the University of Nigeria, Nzukka, where her father had compelled her to study law. Late Chief C.C Onoh, a lawyer and expert in land matters had genuinely and strongly guided his children into reading law.

Later, as the current Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain was done with her programme and out of the university, the former aide to ex-President Obasanjo was getting set to join his father’s law chamber. Around this time, another lady, Miss Saratu Attah had equally found a place in Femi’s heart. She soon got pregnant for him. The pregnancy of Saratu Attah, whose father, Alhaji Adamu Attah, was the second republic governor of Kwara State, reportedly set the relationship between Femi and Bianca on the edge of ruins.

Sometime in 1997, at the wedding anniversary of Ide Ahaba, Chief Sonny Odogwu in Asaba, Delta State, Bianca, who was already married and equally expecting her first child then, had told a frontline celebrity journal, when she was asked about his botched marriage plans with Femi Fani-kayode that “it [the marriage] was not meant to be… I met FFK in London and we both dreamt of having a beautiful home, but things didn’t work our way. I know that he’s married now,” she said.

The marriage plans collapsed because Femi had impregnated Saratu, who later gave birth to Folake, the first child of Femi Fani-kayode, who now holds a Master’s degree in law. Bianca went on with her law programme and later joined her father in his chambers.

However, our source did not provide further on the level of intimacy between Bianca and FFK. We were told that such is left for the duo of Bianca and Fani Kayode to disclose.

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Other Nigerians resent Ndigbo for their success– Ezeife

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A prominent Igbo leader and Third Republic governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, in this interview with ALLWELL OKPI say Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode recent articles were proof that the success of the Igbo in Lagos is resented by their Yoruba  host

I don’t know if you have been following the articles written by one-time Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on the issues arising from the ‘deportation’ of some Igbo people from Lagos. What is your reaction to them?

I have no reason to quarrel with Fani-Kayode. There is a price for success. The Jews all over the world, even among their fellow Arabs, are symbols of success. That is how the Igbo are. In my address at the Ohajioku Lecture in Owerri, I told my people; the Igbo people that this is the time to make friends with other Nigerians. I tried to explain to my people, why some people resent them and are jealous of them, and what we have to do to counter that. Typically, an Igbo comes to a place like Lagos for example with an almost empty bag. He starts with a kind of menial job. After some time, he puts a kiosk somewhere, and in not too long a time, he builds a mansion and stays in front of his mansion exuding apparently more confidence than the original owners of the land. What do you think the original owners of the land will do? How would they feel? They will feel resentment. I tell my people, ‘look they are not resenting you, but they are comparing you with themselves. They get annoyed with you and start being jealous of you. If in addition to your success, you talk about your achievements with pride, like a typical Anambra man will do, that will make the host community even more resentful and jealous.’ What I’m saying is that Fani-Kayode has not done anything fundamental. All he has said is that the Igbo, who come to a bush and convert it to a town; the Igbo who build everywhere and develop everywhere are resented for their success by him and others. I think Igbo people must recognise this. I believe what we can do, which we have not been doing well enough is to put back what we make into fruitful philanthropic. For example, we shouldn’t have allowed the development of Almajiri in the North, as we trained our children, we should have taken those children from the streets and trained them. We have tried to do this, but we will see where we can make amendments in a society like this.

 

He also wrote about how the Yoruba have made sacrifices for Igbo people, saying the Igbo have not made sacrifices for the Yoruba or any other ethnic group.

What are we talking about? Did anyone in Yorubaland fight harder for Nigeria than I did? At the beginning of the democratic dispensation, I gave up the politics of the Peoples Democratic Party, where things were, and went for Alliance for Democracy. I knew what I was doing. I didn’t want the Igbo and the Yoruba to be on parallel lines in Nigeria. I also did  it because the injustice against MKO Abiola was very bad. I take no offence with whatever Fani-Kayode has written. Sacrifice is mutual. When people find themselves in a position to help, they are obligated to do so. For example during the Civil War, Yoruba people collected rent on houses belonging to Igbo people. Has there been any Yoruba man who left Igboland and came back and couldn’t find his house? Do the Yoruba have abandoned property issues in the South-East? How many of them build houses outside Yorubaland? Go to Abuja, maybe 65 to 70 per cent of the houses there are owned by the Igbo. They came and opened it up. If you say we don’t make sacrifices for others, what sacrifice is more than leaving your place and developing another person’s land. I’m not challenging the opinion of Fani-Kayode, whose father was a friend to some prominent Igbo leaders. We, the Igbo, believe that where a person lives, is the place he must develop.

 

Fani-Kayode pointed out in one of his articles, how Igbo leaders, including late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, made statements about the Igbo’s plan to dominate Africa.  Don’t you think this superiority complex put the Igbo on the wrong side of peaceful coexistence?

The Igbo have no superiority mentality, we only have an achievement orientation. Somebody once wrote that the Igbo are a group of people for whom the white man feels inferiority complex. The colonial masters felt inferior to the Igbo people; that tells you the nature of the Igbo. Remember the slave trade. Who were the most difficult people to manage? Instead of going to become slaves, some of them (the Igbo) would rather commit suicide by jumping out of the ship. For an Igbo man, what will he do with life if he does not achieve certain things? It is not superiority feeling; in fact it is inferiority feeling because we keep striving to make money to compete, not with the Yoruba, not with the Hausa, but with ourselves. If you see an Igbo working hard, he is not targeting to outdo anybody from another ethnic group; rather he is competing with his own kinsman, another person from his village, not outsiders.

 

What is your reaction to the ‘deportation’ of some Igbo people from Lagos to Onitsha and what it means considering the relationship between the Yoruba and the Igbo?     

Nothing will harm that relationship. One person’s mistake cannot be generalised. There is no Yoruba-Igbo conflict resulting from the illegal, detestable and obnoxious action of deporting some people from Lagos. It will not cause any long-term problem. The long-term problem that existed, some of us have worked very hard to solve it. We are everywhere, and if anybody thinks we have not contributed enough to developing all parts of Nigeria, the person is wasting his time. It is our nature, we were born that way. We are not competing with anybody but ourselves back in the villages. There is no superiority complex except in competition with your village man, especially in ones age group and other people near you.

 

What is your view of how Fani-Kayode has carried on with expressing his opinion on this issue?

I like the way Fani-Kayode has opened up. Some people bottle up these things and do not allow people know what they are thinking and that is worse. When you open up, people will give you replies and through these replies, you will see the pitfalls in your thoughts. You will be corrected and you move on. I know people are fond of controversy. We need to apply intellect to every situation and we can find a better answer instead of fighting because somebody has called you names

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I Have Not Been Able To Find A Husband Because Of My Late Father” –Yeni Kuti

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At 52, Yeni Kuti, daughter and first child of the late Afro beat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti is full of life. She still loves to dance and can wriggle her waist like she used to do at 27 when she started dancing professionally with the band.
The mother of one, whose marriage crashed some years ago was at home in her New African Shrine office. In this interview she talks about not having any time to contemplate getting married again. She unveils her lifestyle, fashion sense, how she quit smoking and the challenges of managing Africa Shrine.

At 52, you still look strong and dashing, what is the secret?
I think the first secret behind my looks is to be happy. Try your best to smile or even laugh no matter what you are confronted with. That is what I do. I try as much as possible to laugh a lot. Then apart from laughing, I try to watch what I eat because even if I start laughing from now till eternity without a good diet, I may not get a good result. But I must be honest with you, some months back, I wasn’t eating healthy. I was eating everything I see. But now, I have reduced that. I don’t eat much of junk these days but if I’m very hungry and junk food is what I see, I eat but I don’t eat much of that. Another thing that helps me to keep fit is that I love to dance. Oh yes, I still dance a lot. While doing my dance class I burn excess fat in the process. I dance three times in a week – twice with the band and once for my dance class where I teach people how to dance Afro beat. Finally, I don’t take my dinner anything beyond 7 p.m.
Besides these, do you still drink and smoke?
I don’t drink beer or brandy but I can take alcoholic wine, especially Champaign. I drank a lot last night at the party of my good friend who clocked 50. I take soft drinks once in a while unlike before when I used to have it with every meal. I do a TV show every Thursday so I have to wake up at 4.30 a.m. on Thursdays to go for it because it is a life show. For that, I have curbed my alcohol intake a lot. I may take it once or twice in a week. As for smoking, I don’t smoke anymore. I must tell you it was very difficult to stop. I tried for several years to quit but all to no avail. I wouldn’t smoke for, like two or three weeks, and then I would start all over again. Smoking, honestly, is a very difficult habit to stop. What really gingered me to stop was when my daughter was entering university and I thought it over and said to myself, if I continue this my smoking habit and I die in the process before she graduates, how would she graduate? Who would pay her fees? It is only me she has. That was enough inspiration for me not to smoke because I wanted to be alive to see my daughter graduate.
How about guys then, were they relating with you? Did some of them woo you?
Guys didn’t have negative impression of me. The toasters were game. It is only their parents that didn’t just like me. They didn’t want their sons to go out or date Fela’s child. There were times they walked me away when I came visiting. There was a particular woman who seriously warned me never to come to her house to visit her son who was my boyfriend then. She was actually very nasty about my coming to see her son, I mean very nasty, she didn’t hide it at all. Her son was nice to me and was my boyfriend but his mother didn’t like me one but because of my father. In fact, she came one day and descended on me when I visited. It was a very ugly scene. I really don’t want to remember it although the whole thing is still fresh in my memory. The whole scenario that happened is still etched in my memory.
She walked you out of her son’s residence, did you cry later?
No, I didn’t cry! Did I cry that I wasn’t proud of my father or what? Or that I was ashamed of my father or what? They are the ones with a problem and not me. But that kind of thing would annoy me. They never made me cry or shed tears.
How was the relationship with your boyfriend, his mother having walked you out?
The relationship didn’t continue. We broke up. It didn’t just last. I knew that at times many parents didn’t want their sons dating me. That was why I wasn’t keen to meet people’s parents. I was very nervous about meeting people’s parents.
You were once married, what led to the breakup?
Yes, I was once married when I was in my 20s. My marriage then was fine but honestly I would not want to talk about my marriage. You can ask me about other things but not my marriage because I believe it is too personal to talk about. My ex-husband and I are still very friendly. We have a daughter between us. Please let’s leave it at that.
Have you ever felt like remarrying?
There was never a time I was in desperate need of another marriage. But I’m in a very happy relationship and I really don’t think I need to be married to be happy. Our relationship has been going on for a few years. I’m not a marriage kind of person. I have experienced it before and I don’t need to experience it again to know that I’m a human being or to know I’m a fulfilled woman. I’m quite okay with myself. I’m not missing marriage at all and as I said, I’m in a good relationship. I don’t need to get married to know that I’m happy.
What do you remember most about your late father?
I miss so many things about him – his talks, chats and music. I loved listening to him and his live shows. I missed watching him every week unless I wasn’t in town. I never missed his shows. There are some things that would happen and I say to myself, I wished Fela was here, he would have loved to hear this. But he has gone a while, so you have to move on unless you want to move into the ground. This reminds me of the time he was being lowered into his grave how one of his wives was crying and trying to enter into his grave. I told them to leave her let’s see whether she would enter and when she was left, she didn’t enter and I told them that all that was just a show. I don’t believe in that kind of show.
What is your life’s philosophy?

This is a hard one. I think mine is happiness and honesty. To be alive alone is a thing of joy.

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General Sisi kills his own family

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General Fatteh al-Sisi was denounced by a member of his own family following the death of another relative in the massacre at Rabaa al Adawiya. Hazem Lutfi Abdel Aziz Abdel Rahman al-Sisi, appeared in the video below to denounce General Sisi following the death of his brother, Khalid Lutfi al-Sisi. Khalid, a 46 year old engineer, was killed during the army and security forces raid on the anti-coup sit-ins at Adawiya on Wednesday.

Hazem said that he disowned General Sisi as a member of his family and called him a traitor and a killer. He went on to say that he was sure that General Sisi would be punished for his actions, even if justice was a long time coming, as well as the Minister of Interior, Mohammed Ibrahim. He concluded by saying that he hoped God would give everyone patience and insisted that Egyptians would not be silent in the fight for their rights.

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Hot property: Yvonne Okoro

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A self-professed introvert, Ghanaian/ Nigerian actress Yvonne Chinyere Okoro Okereke is nothing like one would expect from a top-tier, beautiful actress. Her unobtrusive allure belies her distinction as one of Nollywood’s highest paid stars.

AfricaMagic Entertainment pays tribute to the dazzling star in August labeling the month Yvonne Okoro and Yvonne Nelson Month. The channel will be screening some of their most celebrated works.
 

There has always been a slight controversy about Yvonne Okoro’s nationality, her father is Nigerian, her mother is Ghanaian, while Yvonne has always asserted that above all else she is African.

The actress
A natural performer from an early age, Okoro’s screen debut came in 2002 with the movie Sticking to the Promise followed by a cameo role in the series Tentacles. But it wasn’t until her supporting role in the feature film Beyoncé that she hit the big-time.

And in recent years she has even been featured in a movie in France.
 

Awards
On the list of Okoro’s accomplishments she counts a Ghana Movie Award for Best Actress in 2010. She was nominated for an African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress In a Leading Role twice in a row in 2011 and 2012 for her movies Pool Party and Single Six as well as a Pan African Actress nomination in the Nigeria Entertainment Awards 2012.

She was also honoured with a Distinguished Achievement Award in 2012 at Nigeria Excellence Awards.
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The beautiful and fashionable Yvonne Okoro captured the charm of the continent as soon as it first laid eyes on her. Always trendy and immaculately styled, Okoro quickly gained every fan’s awe as she adorned red-carpets events and magazine covers.
 

The Humanitarian
In an interview with Peace FM Online, Okoro revealed that she recently opened an old-age home in her late grandmother’s name, The Elizabethan Senior Home, to look after the elderly. She also built a playground for the mentally handicapped – both from her own pocket.
 

Catch Yvonne Okoro in I Broke My Heart/ Final Battle on 24 August 2013 at 21:30 on AfricaMagic Entertainment channel 151.

 

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Kanye West convinces Kim big wedding is best

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Kanye West has reportedly been looking at wedding bands for Kim Kardashian.

The rapper and the reality star welcomed daughter North West in June and the new parents are said to be eager to tie the knot.

Bling ring
Kanye was spotted at the Cartier jewellery store in Beverly Hills supposedly checking out potential rings for Kim.

"Kanye was looking really carefully at wedding bands, like he was making a big decision,” an X17 Online photographer recalled.

“And by big, I mean, BIG — the stuff he was looking at was the most expensive, the biggest diamonds in the whole store."
 
The pair are said to have been discussing marriage for quite some time.

Speculation is rife the ceremony will take place near Kanye’s home in Paris, France.

Been there, done that…
Kim has been married twice before and is allegedly lukewarm about the possibility of throwing a lavish nuptial ceremony.

But Kanye is talking her into planning “something really cool and big and over-the-top”, according to Us Weekly magazine.

"Kanye has never been married before and wants a big wedding. So Kim is getting used to the idea again!" a source told the publication recently.

"They'll most likely have destination wedding. He wants to get married more than she does!"

Kim was married to music producer Harvey Mason between 2000 and 2004.

She split from her last husband Kris Humphries in 2011 after just 72 days of marriage and their lengthy divorce was finalised on 3 June.

Catch Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! Entertainment on Sunday 18 August at 21:00 CAT

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BBA 2013: Ghana’s Kaakie kills it!

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Ghana's Kaakie came all out and shook what her momma gave her on the Big Brother Live Eviction stage.

First appearing in a gold peplum top that gave a great view of her 'girls' with black leggings, the dancehall queen returned dressed in a blue skin tight jumpsuit for her second performance.

As Angelo had just been Evicted from the Big Brother House, he couldn't resist joining the diva on stage with her dancers as they gyrated to her sounds as though he had rehearsed with the group.

The South African Evictee went for Kaakie's behind and the two started moving like there was no tomorrow.

Check out what the rest of Africa thought about Kaakie's performance:

This is evidence that Kaakie did't just rock the Live Show audience but the rest of Africa as well. Now we know exactly how she bagged all those Awards, girl is on fire!

What did you like about Kaakie's performance?

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BBA 2013: Thank you Africa for saving my butt five times – Dillish

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"Top five, thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Africa, thank you Big Brother," exclaimed Elikem this evening. "Thank you Africa for saving my butt five times," Dillish chimed in.

"They said it wasn't possible but you made it possible," the Namibian added with a beaming smile. Dillish was of course referring to the fact that tonight she was saved from Evictions by Africa for the fifth time since The Chase began.

The young Ruby lady is the only Housemate to make it past the fifth Nomination. The other Housemates like Natasha and Annabel just could not make it past their fifth round in the Eviction battle.

"It's only Africa love. I have never been saved by a Housemate and I have never been Head of House so I could never save myself," she said proudly.

"You have made history man," Cleo congratulated her buddy. Well done Dillish and well done to all of the top five Housemates that have made it into the grand finale.

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