Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
UCT students boycott Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lecture
mambaonline.comChimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Pic: Manny Jefferson) Some students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are boycotting a lecture by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who’s been accused of transphobia. The internationally award-winning Adichie is the speaker for Wednesday’s Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture on the topic of The Idolatry of Theory: a Defence of Storytelling.
The Nigerian writer and feminist identifies as an ally of the LGBTIQ+ community and has called for LGBTIQ+ equality across Africa.
She came under fire in 2017, however, for stating that “my feeling is trans women are trans women” when asked in an interview if transgender women are “any less of a real woman”.
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