دانلود مجله Forbes – شخصیت‌های سال 2023-2024 آفریقا

There’s a poignant moment in Disney’s mostbeloved classic, The Lion King, when Mufasa, the king of Pride Rock, tells his erring cub Simba: “You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.” For 25 years, on Broadway at the fabled Minskoff Theatre, this line has been told and retold in myriad ways to audiences arriving from around the world to watch this gasp-inducing on-stage production. The remarkable grit-to-glory, hope and adventure tale of a lion king that has been indelibly etched in pop culture as one of the greatest musicals of our time. I watched it in New York in October, a day after the world saw a new war making all the global headlines, from Tel Aviv to Times Square; and the magnificent Mufasa said these lines with extra emphasis, almost knowing the need of the hour, and which saw many eyes well up in the audience. The Circle of Life. Barely four years into this decade and we have already witnessed several iterations of everything that has gone against it. From Covid to climate catastrophe to conflict – in the plural. So even when Siya Kolisi’s team lifted the rugby world cup with their heart and soul, there was grand merriment but also a collective sigh. Somewhere, a child was crying, dying, in the fog of war, alone, never to know a warm embrace.