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When an artist will not face the music
IT is a conspiracy amongst artists, to never kiss and tell on their first albums, especially when the album has performed badly. In most countries record sales tell it all on how the artist is fairing on popularity charts and sales, but in the case of Botswana there are no gauges, radars or measures taken to keep record of sales of albums to show how well or badly they are performing in the local scene. The only possible way that the sales performance of an album can be determined is if an artist has a distribution deal. Otherwise the artist’s word is the only thing to go by.Down town at the Shell Select
DECIDED to change my focus, when I was filling petrol at the Kudu Service Station on Queens’ Road in the Main Mall. There was a queue of people leading into the Shell Select outlet, all lined up for fast food from the take-away. The aroma of hot food wafted to me, on a cold day, and I was hooked; shot inside to check out.Two lawyers fight love
Laws of Attraction is at the New Capitol Cinemas, Riverwalk.
In the last year or so Hollywood has been big on four types of films: the revenge flick; the demon thriller; animated cartoons; and romantic comedies. Laws of Attraction (2004) is the latest in the fourth category to reach Gaborone. Two accomplished actors, who try to make the most of a slim script, grace it. A divorce lawyer with an arrogant manner, Daniel Rafferty (played by former James Bond hero, Pierce Brosnan) comes to grips in the courtroom with a fellow divorce lawyer, Audrey Woods (acted by the pert Julianne Moore). In and out of slavery
Mende Nazer with Damien Lewis (2004)
Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival, London, A Virago Book, paperback, 325 pages, P 101, ISBN 1-84408-114-1.
OVER 50 years ago, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, established that all human beings are equal and that therefore no person could own or make a slave of another human being. In Sudan, Arab raiders with the complicity of the government and so-called security forces, attack African villages, burning huts, destroying crops, killing with impunity, and kidnapping young boys and girls.
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