Lake Victoria: Last News

Indigenous legend says Lake Victoria is a magical place, inhabited by powerful spiritual beings. Both feared and revered in pre-colonial Uganda, these demi-gods would commune with trans and pangender shamans, who are said to embody the divine masculine and feminine energies of the lake.

Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was pitching him ideas for the movie before he started filming.The cult horror comedy was released in 2010 and is set on the waterside resort Lake Victoria, where an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric piranhas into the lake, causing carnage.The film was helmed by French director Alexandre Aja, and in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aja has said that he met with the Pulp Fiction director a number of times ahead of the making of the movie.“I’ve met with Quentin a few times, and one of the times, we had dinner together in Paris right before I was going to make Piranha 3D,” Aja said. “So I was pitching him all the scenes, and he was pitching me other things that he was thinking about, so I knew how much he loved these types of movies.”Tarantino would go on to be an outspoken fan of another of Aja’s creature features, 2019’s Crawl, a film that sees killer alligators preying upon a family in Florida during a hurricane.“My friend Eli Roth called me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and really loved it’,” Aja continued.

Barack Obama is mourning the loss of his step-grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama.The former U.S. president took to Instagram on Monday, revealing that the matriarch of his Kenyan family has died. She was at least 99 years old.«My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as 'Mama Sarah' but known to us as 'Dani' or Granny,» Obama's message began.