Tom Ndekezi

Tom Ndekezi is the The Gateway’s 2020-21 Arts and Culture Editor and a fifth-year Biological Sciences student. When he’s not busy learning about the brutalities of selection, Tom can be found obsessing over hip-hop, watching soccer, cooking Crohn’s-friendly foods and coming to grips with being left-handed in a right-handed world.

Arts & CultureAmazon Studios

Tom NdekeziNovember 17, 2020

Borat is back and he’s as funny as he can be

When Sacha Baron Cohen first burst onto the scene as the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, it felt like the…
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Arts & CultureDef Jam

Tom NdekeziNovember 6, 2020

“Nah Nah Nah” and Kanye West’s 2020 death spiral

Spotify After 15 years of shock, awe, and constantly pushing the envelope, Kanye West might have finally reached the limits…
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Arts & CultureInk Movement Edmonton

Tom NdekeziNovember 5, 2020

New anthology gives young artists a much needed platform

Making content as a young artist can often feel like shouting into the abyss, but local youth collective Ink Movement…
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Arts & CultureMongrel Media

Tom NdekeziOctober 26, 2020

EIFF Review: Death of a Ladies’ Man

The films reviewed are all being shown at the 2020 Edmonton International Film Festival. Films about booze-fuelled benders are supposed…
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Arts & CultureLitFest

Tom NdekeziOctober 20, 2020

LitFest 2020 gets immersive with new online format

LitFest 2020 is an annual celebration of Canadian non-fiction, and as the weather gets colder and we enter prime reading…
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Arts & CultureEdmonton International Film Festival

Tom NdekeziOctober 7, 2020

Edmonton International Film Festival presses on despite the pandemic

Despite Edmonton’s world-famous festival season being plagued by delays and cancellations, this year’s Edmonton International Film Festival has managed to…
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OpinionChristien Ford

Tom NdekeziJuly 13, 2020

Editorial: Our institutions fail Black people

If there was any doubt as to whether the police motto “to serve and to protect” is a conditional statement,…
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Arts & Cultureexplore

Tom NdekeziJune 30, 2020

Paddling up the livestream: explore.org

Paddling up the livestream is a series where we review new and interesting livestreams. Although some COVID-19 restrictions are starting…
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NewsSupplied

Tom NdekeziJune 22, 2020

COVID-19 a gendered crisis in long-term care facilities

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes its way across Canada, seniors are hit especially hard with the biggest impact being felt…
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Arts & CultureSupplied

Tom NdekeziJune 12, 2020

Album Review: Childish Gambino’s “3.15.20”

Donald Glover is probably the most talented person in Hollywood. He is an Emmy award-winning actor, writer and director with…
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