Imagine you are invited to perform at the Grammys. You’ve spent months practising, refining your routine, and building new skills to make this moment count. You step on stage, give the performance of your life, and the crowd erupts in applause. You sit back, feeling accomplished, imagining how this breakthrough will change your career. Then, out of nowhere, security approaches. They claim your entry was unauthorised. Confused, you show them the official pass handed to you by The Recording Academ...

It’s the holiday season, and you are either hanging out with your loved ones, going to church to celebrate Jesus Christ, or you are probably like me, one who loves to spend the holiday season indulging in spa treatments and watching holiday-themed movies from my carefully curated holiday watchlist (a yearly tradition I started in my late teens). If your favourite is the latter, you have definitely watched the Home Alone series, the one where a little boy gets left behind on a family trip to Pari...

If the world were a high school, BRICS would be the rebel crew challenging the popular kids (i.e. the West). Originally coined BRIC in 2001 by Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill, to describe the fastest developing economies, BRICS is regarded as the new international order in trade and finance. BRIC is an acronym coined from the first letters of the countries originating in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and it became a formal inter-governmental organisation in 2006. South Africa joined the or...

Ever heard of Tiktok? The app with the black musical note logo which showcases your favourite trends, real conversations, and influencers promoting your favourite brands. With over a billion users worldwide, TikTok isn’t just an app, it’s a geopolitical lightning rod that reveals how deeply technology intertwines with global power struggles. Established in 2016, by the Chinese parent company; ByteDance, as a short-form video app, TikTok is the most downloaded social media application in the worl...