The Real Queen of R&B: SADE ADU

I love the Album Cover

One of my favorite singer of all time is making a come back. Yes I am talking about SADE ADU, the beautiful and talented Nigerian native’s vocalist. Sade, the reclusive "quiet storm" soul singer who takes notoriously long breaks between releases is returning to the studio for the first time since recording 2000's "Lover's Rock, her long awaited sixth studio album 'Soldier of Love' is set to be released February 8th 2010, worldwide.

Sade stayed true to her surroundings during the making of ‘Soldier of Love‘ by working with her long-time band-mates in a U.K. recording studio.

Sade's 2000 release, "Lovers Rock," sold 3,881,000 copies in the U.S. and the prior album, 1992's "Love Deluxe," sold 3,407,000. Since 1985's "Diamond Life" debut, Sade has sold nearly 17 million units in the U.S. alone according to Nielsen SoundScan.

I also learned that she has a song with Maxwell on this upcoming CD. That sounds like a classic hit.

If you want to listen to her music click HERE

Ok then I guess it will be BABYBOOM Time in February 2010, Sade is timeless.

I cannot wait! This is really good news to ears that have been starving for some real music.

Skin: The Movie

The story

This is the true story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born, through a genetic anomaly, to white Afrikaner parents in apartheid-torn South Africa.

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.



Starring


Sophie Okonedo

Sam Neil

Alice Krige

Ella Ramangwane

And Tony Kgoroge

For the movie official website click HERE

To watch another version of the movie trailer click HERE

If you want to learn more about the real Sandra Laing go HERE

To buy the book titled When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race on Amazon.com click HERE

I was able to watch the movie and let me tell you that it was such a tragic, sad, painful, enraging, and uplifting story. The Apartheid Era was a bad period and it's encouraging to think that so much time has passed.

Jennifer Hudson: The New Winnie Mandela

Jennifer Hudson, the former American Idol contestant who won the oscar in her first screen role in "Dreamgirls" back in 2006, is ready for her next challenge.

Hudson will star in “Winnie,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where the former President spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.

“Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!”

Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography "Winnie Mandela: A Life". Picture is being made with South African and Canadian money, with Pieterse producing with Michael Mosca of Canada’s Equinoxe Films.

While Nelson Mandela—who’ll be played by Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Invictus”-- is a universally sympathetic figure for his struggle against apartheid, his former wife is a far more complicated figure.

She has been depicted as the mother and wife who was a steadfast supporter of her activist husband and who was jailed herself for campaigning for his release and fighting against apartheid. Her image was subsequently tarnished by association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year old alleged informer, and she was later convicted of fraud.

The filmmakers will tell the whole story, good and bad.

“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honored to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”

Hudson, who is expected to sing the film’s theme song, followed her screen debut with “The Secret Life of Bees” and “Sex in the City.” After releasing a Grammy-winning self-titled debut album earlier this year, Hudson is in the studio recording a follow-up, and then will begin preparing for the role. She also stars in “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” an ABC holiday special to be broadcast on December 14.

Congrats Jennifer.

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The Movie Bronx Princess: A journey to Ghana

Every now and then, some Ghanaian parents living abroad would send their notorious kids to families in Ghana for some good old Ghanaian parenting aimed at reforming them. A similar captivating tale is told of a 17-year-old teenager's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father in the award winning documentary, ‘Bronx Princess’.
Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a sassy high-achiever bound for college. With freedom in sight, Rocky rebels against her mother's rules. When their relationship reaches a breaking point, Rocky flees to her father, a chief in Ghana. What follows is captured in Bronx Princess, a tumultuous coming-of-age story set in a homeland both familiar and strange.

By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence. Her precocious — and very American — ideas of a successful, independent life conflict with her father's traditional African values. Reconciling her dual legacies becomes an unexpected chapter in this unforgettable young woman's education. Filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed met a 17-year old Otoo in 2008, at her mother’s beauty supply shop in Mount Eden. The high school senior was set to graduate, and then visit her father in Ghana.

In an interview with Otoo, she revealed …“I hadn’t seen my dad in two years. Yoni and Musa thought it was an amazing story. They found me at school the next day and asked to shoot a documentary.”Otoo is a bright and outgoing young woman. She’d recently landed a role in the school musical and agreed to the documentary plan. “I thought it would be an amazing opportunity,” Otoo said. “It was glamorous.” Brook and Syeed trailed Otoo, cameras in hand. “It was unscripted,” she said. “I walked and talked. The cameras followed me. Eventually, I forgot that the cameras were there.”

About her journey to Ghana, she said, “I thought I was used to Ghanaian culture. I was born and raised in the Bronx but there were so many Ghanaians in my neighborhood.” She thought wrong.

The documentary was shown at the West African Arts Festival block party earlier in September and is now available on DVD

But in the meantime you can watch it online from September 23, 2009 to October 23, 2009 HERE

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The I Wear African Campaign

Waw I am featured on the I wear African Campaign, check it out on the African Vibes Magazine online (Here)


So Proud and Happy!!!!!!!!!!

He is Mr Wrong: The Signs

Discover how to stay away from Mr. Wrong so you can make some room for Mr. Right!

Let's be honest with ourselves. Sometimes, we just know certain guys aren't right for us, but we ignore the warning signs anyway. We hope that they'll change. Or that they'll grow out of it. Or that somehow, all of our love and devotion will rub off on them. Not so! So let's get real about all of the Mr. Wrongs out there.

* He won't tell you he loves you -- or even that he likes you. If he can't express any of his feelings for you after six months, or even a year for that matter, you've got to face facts. He's not that into you. If he was, he would muster up the courage to let you know -- or to at least make sure you felt the same way.

* He won't hang out with you in public. He's either ashamed or afraid he'll get caught. Either way, he is not a keeper.

* He is unavailable on all major holidays, include Valentine's Day and his birthday. Here is a hint: He's already married or otherwise engaged. Don't buy excuse after excuse that his mother wants to be with him on every holiday. Can't he bring you along? And what is his excuse for Valentine's Day? Is he getting a couple's massage with his mom?

* He is paranoid that you'll read his email, look at his cell phone or see his computer screen when he's chatting. This is an easy one: The man has something to hide.

* He hits you, yells at you or makes you feel like you're not worth anything. Any one of these -- or anything along these lines -- are deal breakers. You deserve better. And abuse in any form isn't love.

Think about it. Life is too short to be wasting your time with Mr Wrong.

25 TIPS FOR A BETTER LIFE - 2009

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement,
'My purpose is to________ today.'

4. Eat more foods that grow on plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

7. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. And people who are worth it.

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

9. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone..

11. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

12. Y o u don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

13. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

14. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

15.. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'

17. Forgive everyone for everything.

18. What other people think of you is none of your business.

19. GOD heals almost everything. . . and He can heal everything if it's in His plan. We just need to trust His bigger picture.

20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

21. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch!!!

22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:

'I am thankful for _____.'
'Today I accomplished______.'

24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

25. Please Forward this to everyone you care about.

Five tips for a woman.....

1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

3. It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn't lie to you.

4. It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.

5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.


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One for the girls

This is the prayer of a woman to God before going to bed:

Now that I lay me down to sleep
I pray to God that I can keep my shape
Please no wrinkles on my face
Please no bags under my eyes
Please lift my butt before it sags
Please no age spots on my body
Please no gray Hair
As for my belly please take it away
Please keep me healthy
Please keep me young
And thank you Dear God, for all that you've done.

Top 10 Women Drivers of the Year

Pregnancy, Estrogen, and Women PREGNANCY Q & A & more

PREGNANCY Q & A

Q: Should I have a baby after 35?
A: No, 35 children is enough.
Q : I'm two months pregnant now. When will my baby move?
A: With any luck, right after he finishes college.
Q : What is the most reliable method to determine a baby's sex?
A: Childbirth.
Q: My wife is five months pregnant and so moody that sometimes she's borderline irrational.
A: So what's your question?
Q : My childbirth instructor says it's not pain I'll feel during labor, but pressure. Is she right?
A: Yes, in the same way that a tornado might be called an air current.
Q: When is the best time to get an epidural?
A: Right after you find out you're pregnant.
Q : Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
A: Not unless the word 'alimony' means anything to you.
Q: Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
A: Yes, pregnancy.
Q : Do I have to have a baby shower?
A: Not if you change the baby's diaper very quickly.
Q : Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
A: When the kids are in college.

'9 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE 'ESTROGEN ISSUES'

1. Everyone around you has an attitude problem.
2. You're adding chocolate chips to your cheese omelet.
3. The dryer has shrunk every last pair of your jeans.
4. Your husband is suddenly agreeing to everything you say.
5. You 're using your cellular phone to dial up every bumper sticker that says: 'How's my driving-call 1- 800-'.
6. Everyone's head looks like an invitation to batting practice.
7. Everyone seems to have just landed here from 'outer space.'
8. You're sure that everyone is scheming to drive you crazy.
9. The ibuprofen bottle is empty and you bought it yesterday.

TOP TEN THINGS ONL Y WOMEN UNDERSTAND

10. Cats' facial expressions.
9. The need for the same style of shoes in different colors.
8. Why bean sprouts aren't just weeds.
7. Fat clothes.
6. Taking a car trip without trying to beat your best time.
5. The difference between beige, ecru, cream, off-white, and eggshell.
4. Cutting your hair to make it grow.
3. Eyelash curlers.
2. The inaccuracy of every bathroom scale ever made.
AND, the Number One thing only women understand:1. OTHER WOMEN

WE ALL NEED A SMILE!

LES FEMMES ONT TOUJOURS LE DERNIER MOT

Un couple se balade en voiture à la campagne. Suite à une discussion plutôt acerbe, ils ne se parlent pas..Passant devant une ferme où on voit des ânes et des cochons, le mari ose briser le silence et dit : «Tiens, de la famille à toi? »Son épouse répond du tac au tac : « Oui, par alliance !»

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Un homme lit le journal et dit à son épouse : - Savais-tu que les femmes utilisent 30.000 mots par jour et les hommes 15.000 ?La femme lui répond : 'C'est facile à expliquer, il faut toujours répéter deux fois la même chose aux hommes.'L'homme se retourne vers elle et dit : 'Quoi?'

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Un homme dit à son épouse : - Comment le bon Dieu a-t-il pu te faire aussi belle et aussi stupide à la fois ?Celle-ci répond : - Laisse-moi t'expliquer : Dieu m'a faite belle pour t'attirer. Et il m'a faite assez stupide pour que je te garde.

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Suite à une dispute, un couple ne se parle plus.. Aucun ne veut rompre le silence. Soudain le mari se souvient qu'il doit se lever à 5:00 du matin pour prendre l'avion en vue d'un rendez-vous d'affaires important. Il prend un bout de papier et écrit : - Réveille-moi à 5 heures, je dois prendre l'avion.Il le place bien en vue. Le lendemain, il se réveille à 9h; furieux, il se lève et aperçoit un papier sur sa table de nuit sur lequel il lit : 'Il est 5h, lève-toi.'

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Il était une fois un homme très pingre qui avait travaillé toute sa vie et épargné son argent.. Il aimait l'argent plus que tout et juste avant de mourir il dit à sa femme : « Lorsque je mourrai, je veux que tu mettes tout mon argent dans le cercueil avec moi, ce sera pour ma vie après la mort » Bien à contrecœur, sa femme lui fit le serment de mettre tout son argent dans le cercueil avec lui. Peu de temps après, il mourut... Au cimetière, il était étendu dans son cercueil entouré de quelques amis, membres de sa famille et de son épouse toute de noire vêtue. Comme la cérémonie se terminait et juste avant que le cercueil soit refermé et porté en terre, l'épouse dit: 'Attendez une minute'. Elle prit alors une boîte qu'elle déposa dans le cercueil avec son époux. Les préposés firent alors descendre le cercueil dans la fosse. Un ami lui dit alors: 'Écoute bien, j'espère que tu as été assez intelligente pour ne pas mettre tout son argent dans le cercueil avec lui comme il t'avait demandé ?' L'épouse dit alors: 'Bien sûr que je suis une bonne chrétienne et je ne puis revenir sur la parole faite à un mourant de mettre son argent avec lui dans le cercueil', et elle ajouta : 'Je lui ai fait un CHEQUE'


Ne jamais sous-estimer l'intelligence et le pragmatisme d'une femme.....

THERE IS NO FURY LIKE THAT OF A WOMAN SCORNED...

Angry women did that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!