Word: aka
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...aged just 19, Suzzy married Gershon Aka, a bank clerk 12 years her senior. The first few years of married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children - son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23 - but the drought and hunger were tightening their grip. Ghana never experienced anything as bad as the famines that choked Ethiopia in the early 1970s or the mid-1980s, but the nation hurt all the same. As they would elsewhere, aid groups poured millions of dollars into plans for development. Some...
...first glance, X Plastaz seems to be a fairly typical hip hop group: the dreads, the slouch, the too-cool-for-school chin tilt.But when lead rapper Godson Rutta (aka Gsann) starts to talk about his music, his eyes light up with the genuine enthusiasm of a boy at a little league game and his excitement is such that he can barely stay on the edge of his seat—that’s when you first know that X Plastaz is not just another Wu Tang wannabe. For starters, Gsann and his crew—his brother Nelson...
...find their new music by listening to their radio stations online or through satellite stations.However, the art of the Internet-radio-CD seems destined to be a practice that will never be realized.With the introduction of the Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (aka the PERFORM Act) to the Senate, the loss of Fair Use for online and satellite radio is about to become a reality.If approved, the changes to the Copyright Act would require all streaming media providers to use protected formats for any content on the Internet, satellite radio, or television.This proposal...
After questioning Lindsay’s latest recovery attempt, mocking Nicole Richie’s DUI, and “doodling” white dots of cocaine and semen across countless celebrity faces, Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. aka “Perez Hilton” has found his place in Hollywood. This year, the “Gossip Gangstar” awarded his namesake, Paris Hilton, the “Big Outlaw” award at VH1’s “Big in ’06” show, starred in his own GQ magazine spread...
...happens—due to chronic jetlag and the menacing complexity of foreign keyboards, one must assume—I have been reduced to piecing together the details from secondary sources (aka, Facebook.com and my mother...