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Entertainment

Jackson Browne’s Son Ethan Browne’s Cause of Death Revealed 

Maravi Post Reporter

Actor and model Ethan Browne’s cause of death has been revealed. 

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed on Tuesday, January 13, that Ethan, the son of songwriter Jackson Browne, died from the “effects of fentanyl, methamphetamine and lidocaine,” per documents obtained by Us Weekly. 

The medical examiner ruled that the manner of death accidental. He was 52. 

Jackson, 77, shared the news of his son’s death in November 2025. 

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“It is with deep sorrow that we share that on the morning of November 25, 2025, Ethan Browne, the son of Jackson Browne and Phyllis Major, was found unresponsive in his home and has passed away,” a statement shared via Jackson’s Facebook read on November 26, 2025. “We ask for privacy and respect for the family during this difficult time. No further details are available at this moment.”

Jackson and Major welcomed Ethan in 1973, three years before Major committed suicide at age 30. Jackson later tied the knot with Lynee Sweeney in 1981, welcoming son Ryan the following year before their divorce in 1983. 

Ethan grew up following in his father’s footsteps by pursuing a career in Hollywood. He was just 1-year-old when he graced the cover of Rolling Stone in 1974 alongside Jackson, where the songwriter held his son in his arms while nuzzling into his face. The 1995 film Hackers would later serve as Ethan’s feature film debut. In 2002, he appeared on the 2002 TV show Birds of Prey before being cast in 2004’s Raising Helen alongside Kate Hudson. 

According to Mark Ronson’s 2025 memoir Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City, Ethan was also a working actor and was featured in campaigns for designers like Isaac Mizrahi before his death. Ronson recalled meeting Ethan in his book, describing him as “the real deal” who has the “sharp cheekbones” of his late mother and “an angular face and soulful gaze that seemed to reveal his deepest truths, even from a glossy page.” 

Ethan was also a dad himself, welcoming a daughter before his death. 

“Ethan is a great father. He’s a great son, a great man. I love seeing him with his kids,” Jackson gushed of his son in a May 2022 interview with Tru Rock Revival. “When I see him in his movies, modeling, with his daughter, and being such a great dad, it makes me very proud. It makes me feel I’ve done something really right in my life.”

Jackson has been candid about how his own “main focus” became fatherhood after Major’s death. 

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“I only had two things that I hoped I could fit together: being a songwriter and a father. And I looked at it like this, if I have to only be a father, I hope I’ll know it, and just do that,” the “These Days” songwriter said in an interview with Route magazine in June 2021. “But life’s not like that and you don’t get a notice in the mail saying you’re blowing it as a parent. You think you have the advice and the help you need, and sometimes you don’t, or you don’t heed it.”

He continued, “The mistakes I’ve made as a parent are still with me. I think about them fairly often. It’s not that you’re not trying the whole time. It’s not that I wasn’t trying then. You’re just distracted by other things and some things don’t occur to you. Or maybe you ignore advice that you should have taken, because you’re overconfident.”

Lifestyle

Australia’s new African heritage Hub builds culture and community

Maravi Post Reporter

A new centre honouring African heritage and culture has launched in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The Baai-Alkebulan African library, arts and cultural centre welcomed visitors for the first time in April. Its founder envisions the space as a gathering place for young African Australians. STORYLINE This is what 30-year-old Magang Reech had been yearning for all his life.

Launching an African library, art and history museum to finally have a space where books reflect his heritage. “When you see your own people on the book covers, it changes your approach to it,” says Reech. He grew up in Melbourne’s inner-city suburbs and the history he learnt at school lacked representation as far as he is concerned. “You just gobble up whatever is in front of you until later on you know better,” says Reech.

First, he started assembling a collection of books he was interested in. The next step was loaning them out to friends and community members. And that’s how the idea for the library took shape. “Just to have a place that you can breathe and see your own people,” explains Reech. Getting to the point of actually creating a library was full of obstacles. Reech wanted to help his community after he himself had to deal with a series of tragedies. “A lot of my friends that I know that I grew up with and really remember the early days, some of them actually passed, a lot committed suicide, a lot that have locked up in prisons.

For me it was like, we have to do something now,” he says. Advocates say young African Australians need more spaces like this one. “Spaces like this help create safety for our people, our young people, but also build cultural sensitivity,” says community advocate Mahamed Ahmed.

When the library initially launched, Reech was primarily financing the project himself. However, his long-term goal is to build a space that evolves through community support and involvement. “Hopefully we have something that will continue for the rest of my life and beyond,” Reech concludes.

Source: Africanews

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Malawi, Obituaries

Primary school teacher commits suicide in Dedza

Malawi News Agency (MANA)

A 47 year old Bua Primary School teacher in Dedza, Ivesi Kumankhamba committed suicide by hanging himself in a tree.

According to Dedza police spokesperson, Edward Kabango said the deceased started teaching at Bua primary school in 2005. He said four months ago his wife, Ireen Kumankhamba 32, went to Dowa where she was nursing her ill sister.

Last week, Ivesi is reported to have followed his wife in Dowa where they agreed that the wife should return home on 8th of this month.

“Yesterday, the wife received a [phone] call from neighbours informing her that her husband had died after hanging himself in a tree outside their house,” said Kabango.

Postmortem results revealed that Ivesi died due to suffocation. Meanwhile, police have not yet established the reason why the teacher committed suicide.

The deceased hailed from Fosa Village, Traditional Authority (T.A) Kachere while the wife comes from Kachiramadzi Village in T.A. Chilikumwendo both from Dedza District.