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There’s a new course at Washington University in St. Louis focused on everything Kanye West. Confirming to Billboard, Professor Jeffrey McCune, ‘Seventy-five students are currently registered for “Politics of Kanye West: Black Genius and Sonic Aesthetics,” a course which began this week and there’s a waiting list to sign up for the class’. The course description reads ‘Kanye West As a hip-hop artist Kanye West has had unprecedented impact on the sonic force of music, fashion, politics, and videography. Coupling his controversial moments, with his corpus of musical texts with special focus on sonic production, this course illuminates Mr. West as a case study for interrogating the interplay between fame, gender, sexuality, and race. Mostly, we explore how racialized ways of doing iconography, complex ways of seeing, creates a distorted or reductive frame through which we see the black and famous. Nonetheless, the course oscillates with entertaining these nuances, ...

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the Ameri...

Regarding the constant depreciation of Naira, a report was published on Nigerian Camera, bearing an interesting statement by Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), and his prediction of a continuous fall in Naira. Mr Godwin, who has served as Chief Executive officer and Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc and also Deputy Managing Director of same company, gave a lengthy breakdown of why he thinks Naira may fall to N1000 per dollar in the nearest future. • “It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. • “That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expre...