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Senegal Prepares to Launch New Digital Currency
Under-banked Senegal, home to 15,830,490 people, is about to become the second country to introduce a national digital currency, called the electronic Central African Franc (eCFA), which will have the same legal tender status as the CFA, Senegal’s traditional government-backed currency. In Tunisia, the first country to adopt a national digital currency, citizens discovered…
Fences: A Meditation on African-American Life
Playwright August Wilson introduced his brilliant play Fences to the theatrical world in 1983; today Denzel Washington has taken the provocative play to a much larger screen as a film starring himself and Viola Davis. Troy Maxson, played by Denzel Washington, introduces spectators to an incredibly nuanced view of the black American working-class man…
Twitter War: Streep vs Trump
President-elect Donald Trump is only days away from being sworn into the White House—one of the biggest jobs in the world. So what is he doing as he prepares to take on the role of Commander-in-Chief? Apparently, he’s stuck on trying to get a one-up on Twitter. That’s right, it’s another Trump tweet war,…
Arrest Made in Kardashian Paris Robbery
Paris police confirm that 16 people have been arrested in the Paris robbery of Kim Kardashian. The robbery occurred in the French capital where the TV star lost a reported 10 million dollars worth of diamonds. The nightmare rattled Kardashian to her core, and only recently has she stepped back out into the spotlight,…
