Roula (1995)
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"Lick It" is a song recorded by American dance music group 20 Fingers featuring singer Roula, released in February 1995 as the second single from their debut album, On the Attack and More (1994). It also appears on 20 Fingers' self-titled second studio album and peaked at number-one in Italy. The song contains explicit lyrics that refer to cunnilingus. A black-and-white music video was also produced to promote the single.
In 1995, the mashup "Don't Laugh But Lick It" has been released as 20 Fingers & Winx feat. Roula, compromising "Lick It" with "Don't Laugh" by DJ Winx. In the Sensation White party in Amsterdam 2009, there has been released a special remix of "Lick It" with the original vocals of Roula, with go-go dancers background. In 2009, DJ Felli Fel heavily samples "Lick It" in his song "Feel It" featuring T-Pain, Sean Paul, Flo Rida and Pitbull.
John Kay (1948-) is an economist, and visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His career has included a diverse range of roles, including contributions to think tanks, teaching at business schools, and consultancy work. From 1995 until recently, he was a regular contributor to the Financial Times, writing a weekly column. He has received several prestigious honours for both his general work, journalism and writing. For more information, visit www.johnkay.com.
Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times, where she has worked since 1995 after leaving Forbes magazine. She started as North Africa correspondent, before becoming Middle East correspondent, and regularly contributes on world affairs, particularly Middle East politics and business. In the 2009 International Media Awards she won the Peace Through Media award for the high quality of her work, as well as winning and appearing on shortlists for several prestigious prizes.
Roula Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and before that she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York. Her specialist areas are Iraq, where she has travelled extensively, the Gulf, North Africa and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
But is South Africa lacking in research publications in only Technology? Table 1 shows the broader scientific disciplines in which South Africa has published research outputs for the period from 1995 to 2016. The information included is the number of publications produced with at least one South African author in each broad scientific field; the share of each discipline in the South African set of publications; the country's share of the world's publications in the particular field and South Africa's world ranking in each field.