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Why Virginity Is Still Important in Africa

By BCNN5 on February 6, 2012 3:16 PM

VIRGINITY has been associated with purity, chastity, valor and Godliness, but over the years this precious virtue has been thrown to the dogs -- it is no longer valued.

Not long ago there were many young people who valued their purity and adhered to the principle of no sex before marriage but today one would be shocked at the age that people are engaging in sexual activities. With all the warning of the dangers of premarital sexual activity and the serious threat of HIV and Aids, there still a great number of unmarried teenagers having sex.

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President Zuma Congratulates Chaka Chaka

By BCNN5 on January 30, 2012 5:28 AM

President Jacob Zuma on Thursday congratulated performer Yvonne Chaka Chaka on being the first African woman to receive the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Crystal Award.

"We applaud the wonderful work she does promoting quality health care and other social development issues in the continent," Zuma said in a statement.

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Donnie Mcclurkin Performs At Namboole

By BCNN5 on January 30, 2012 4:57 AM

Internationally renowned gospel artiste, Donnie McClurkin performed on the 27th at Nelson Mandela stadium, Namboole.

McClurkin has been hosted by Rubaga Miracle Centre and is performing tonight in a show dubbed "For this purpose I was born".

The event is one of the many that have been organised by Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral for Pastor Robert Kayanja's 50th birthday.

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Meet the Soweto Gospel Choir!

By BCNN5 on January 24, 2012 2:25 AM

The Soweto Gospel Choir melds traditional African music and movement with gospel and pop for a unique and energetic performance.

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The Soweto Gospel Choir is not like most choirs.

Its members are not classically trained, and they don't read music.

Yet they've performed with the likes of U2, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Josh Groban, while winning two Grammy awards and reaching No. 1 on Billboard's World Music Charts.

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DC Entertainment Teams With Aid Groups to Raise $2 Million-Plus, Awareness for Hunger Crisis in Africa

By BCNN5 on January 24, 2012 12:49 AM

With the help of the DC superheroes of the Justice League and the slogan "We Can Be Heroes," the partners hope to put a spotlight on a problem that has "not gotten the consistent understanding and awareness that it deserves," Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said.

NEW YORK - Time Warner said Monday it has partnered with aid organizations to combat the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa with the help of DC Entertainment superheroes and the slogan "We Can Be Heroes."

TW chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes promised at a press event at the entertainment conglomerate's headquarters here a "very forceful, multifaceted campaign" that will take advantage of all company units, including their story telling, brand and marketing capabilities, as well as their global reach, to raise awareness and funds as social responsibility "is in the DNA of the company."

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The Rise and Rise of Gospel Music in Uganda

By BCNN5 on January 9, 2012 7:41 PM

A few months ago, the Olive Gospel Awards were lauded as one of the best organised music award shows in Kampala in 2011.

Hot on the heels of that runaway success was the double gospel treat weekend, of Bugembe's worship night and Judith Babirye's Mama album launched.

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New Book Reflects On Marriage Values

By BCNN5 on January 3, 2012 9:04 AM

Marriage is a topic that has been tackled by many people. Marriage counsellors have looked at it from both the African and Western perspective. Despite this, it remains an emotive area that still requires more contributions.

It is out of this desire to contribute to the debate and to inform those entering marriage that Mbuya Rose Siyachitema tackles the marriage institution in her latest book Mbuya Nemuzukuru Book 4.

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S.Africa's Iconic Black Glamour Magazine 'Drum' Turns 60

By BCNN5 on January 3, 2012 8:54 AM

Yellowed cover pages of South Africa's iconic Drum magazine evoke a 1950s black fashion and jazz culture which perished when apartheid forces razed Sophiatown, a racially-mixed Johannesburg suburb.

This year Drum turned 60 and even today South Africans link the magazine to Sophiatown, a restless and vibrant suburb which was home to blacks, coloureds, Indians and Chinese.

Between 1955 and 1960, residents were forcibly removed and relocated to townships outside Johannesburg because white blue-collar areas sprang up nearby, fuelling the perception that Sophiatown was too close to white suburbia.

It was flattened, repopulated with poor whites and renamed Triomf, which is Afrikaans for "Triumph".

"Sophiatown set the pace, giving urban African culture its pulse, rhythm, and style during the 1940s and 1950s," said cultural anthropologist David Coplan in his book "In Township Tonight".

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Meet the Youngest Ghanaian Entrepreneur in Italy

By BCNN5 on January 3, 2012 7:41 AM

Meet the youngest Ghanaian entrepreneur in Italy - Obed (alias 'Worshipper')

At 24 years of age, Obed Amoah Duku, who lives in Brescia, is the youngest Ghanaian entrepreneur in Italy. He is a degree holder in Legal Consultancy and Estate Management, owns a Consultancy Firm and runs a Charity Organisation. Not only that; illustrious and charismatic Obed, a native of Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana, is also a gospel artiste, motivational speaker and an author. In an interview with Reggie Tagoe he revealed more about himself, his business, music, charity organisation and others. Read the full text of that interview below.

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WATCH: Cape Verde's 'Barefoot Diva' Dies

By BCNN5 on December 26, 2011 5:24 AM

Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, who died at the age of 70, will be buried on her home island of Sao Vicente.

Cesaria Evora, the "barefoot diva" who is credited for introducing Cape Verde's morna style of music to the world, has died at the age of 70.

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African Youth Encourage Their Peers to Save Sex Until Marriage

By BCNN5 on December 11, 2011 11:55 AM

No one needs to tell any American evangelical born after 1980 that true love waits. The campaign, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, has since 1993 urged young believers, by way of youth-group talks and paper pledges and purity rings, to abstain from premarital sex.

The program and others like it root their argument for abstinence in the logic of payoff: "If you wait for marriage, your future sex life will be hot." As communications expert Christine Gardner told CT recently, these campaigns "are using sex to sell abstinence. They are using the very thing they are prohibiting to admonish young people to wait."

The Road We Know, a laudable new documentary about HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana (is about a youth-led abstinence campaign of an entirely different kind. (Watch the trailer here, and watch the entire film here.)

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South Africa Gospel Group to Tour in Zimbabwe

By BCNN5 on December 11, 2011 11:49 AM

One of South Africa's top gospel groups, Reality 7, and Zimbabwe's new male acapella outfit, Stand, will this weekend serenade Harare music lovers with some blessed harmonies.

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South African Debuts AIDS Film on World AIDS Day

By BCNN5 on December 11, 2011 11:22 AM

A new movie being released in South Africa is using animation to show viewers how people become infected with HIV and spread the virus.

The cast and characters are Kenyan, Nigerian and South African -- which producers hope will help the film travel across the continent hardest hit by the disease.

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Gospel Music Community Reacts to Death of MaLinda Sapp

By BCNN5 on September 13, 2010 8:12 PM

Word of the passing of MaLinda Prince Sapp, wife and manager of singer Marvin Sapp, spread quickly Thursday throughout the gospel music community and beyond.

The "Homegoing Service" is set for noon Thursday at Resurrection Life Church, 5100 Ivanrest Ave. SW. The service will be preceded by a family hour at 11 a.m.

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Faith-based Films In Viewers' Good Books

By BCNN5 on September 13, 2010 8:05 PM

Generally, when a camera breaks on a film set, the first move is to call the technicians. Not so on Letters to God. When equipment went wrong on that film -- a based-on-a-true-story weepie about a cancer-stricken child whose missives to the almighty redeem an alcoholic postman -- the drill was: pray first, check the fuses later. But it wasn't just techies falling to their knees. It was religious professionals.

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