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Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield says Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti helped shape the energy and confidence he brought to Spider-Man. Garfield said Fela’s spirit, sound and rhythm were useful while developing the character, adding that he creates a music playlist for every role he plays. The connection goes back to his first Spider-Man era: in a 2012 interview, Garfield also said he listened to a lot of Fela while trying to find the confidence and physical freedom needed for the superhero role. Fela’s 'Water Get No Enemy' was also included in Garfield’s September 2026 Track Star music session. #africanfolder

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Nigerian singer Ayra Starr has topped the NotJustOk Afrobeats Power Ranking for August 2026, becoming the fourth female artist to reach the No. 1 position on the monthly ranking. She displaces Burna Boy from the summit in her first appearance at the top of the ranking. Three other female artists have topped the ranking since it was launched. South African singer Tyla was the first, reaching No. 1 in February 2025 and returning to the summit in December 2025. Ghanaian-American singer Moliy claimed the top spot in July 2025. Nigerian singer Tems has topped the ranking twice, in September 2025 and February 2026 Ayra Starr's rise to No. 1 followed the release of her third studio album, Starrgirl, on August 14, 2026. The project drove her to the top of the ranking on the strength of album-wide streaming performance, led by her ZAYN collaboration Heaven Baby, which posted more than 937,000 daily streams on Spotify at its peak and debuted at No. 1 on the UK Official British Asian Mus...

In January 2001, Ed Toutant was one question away from the biggest night of his life on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, needing to answer the $16,000 question to keep his shot at $1.86 million alive. The question asked which vegetable had been genetically engineered to glow when it needed water. Toutant answered tomato. The show said potato, and sent him home. Except the show was wrong. Researchers had, in fact, worked on glowing tomatoes, and the specific experiment the question referenced had actually happened in Scotland, not England as the question stated. Producers reviewed the complaint, agreed the question was flawed, and did something game shows almost never do: they invited Toutant back and reset the jackpot to exactly where it stood before his original loss. He returned in September 2001, cleared the $16,000 question this time, and kept going. On his final question, about what World War II soldiers used aerosol cans for, he used his last lifeline and answered insecticide....

Bobby Shafran walked onto his college campus in New York in 1980 and total strangers greeted him like an old friend, calling him by a name that wasn't his. It turned out that name belonged to Eddy Galland, a student who'd attended the same school the year before and looked exactly like Bobby, because they were identical twins separated at birth. Except they weren't twins. They were triplets. A third brother, David Kellman, saw their photo splashed across a New York newspaper covering the story and recognized his own face staring back twice. He called the paper. Within days all three had met for the first time since infancy. What none of them knew for years afterward was why they'd been split up in the first place. A prominent psychiatrist had arranged their separate adoptions as part of a secret nature versus nurture study, sending each boy to a different kind of household and tracking them without ever telling the families what they were really part of. The brothe...

Nigerian singer Tekno says Fela Kuti is not his king, arguing that most of his biggest songs were not built around Fela’s Afrobeat sound, nor did he grow up listening to him. 🇳🇬 Speaking during a Yanga FM 89.9 interview in Lagos, Tekno pointed to 'Duro', 'Pana' and 'Yawa' as examples, while saying 'Rara' is the song in his catalogue that carries a clear Fela influence. In his words, Tekno said, “Fela was not my king & he will never be my king. I grew up in Bauchi, my dad is Igbo & no one around us spoke Yoruba. I didn’t listen to Fela growing up, the only song of mine that sounds like Fela’s Afrobeat is Rara. Oliver De Coque is my king.” The comments follow an earlier HOT 97 interview where Tekno praised Fela for taking Afrobeat global but argued that other Nigerian legends also deserve recognition. He specifically cited Oliver De Coque and other eastern highlife musicians as major influences on him. 🎥: @yanga899fm #africanfolder