When she was passed up for a modeling contract with a major cosmetics brand, Flaviana Matata had one reaction. She celebrated. “I remember wanting that job so much,” she says, reflecting on the ...

Matata, one of the world's oldest bonobo apes in captivity and a Des Moines resident, died Sunday, the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative announced. Matata was believed to be in her mid- to ...

'Hakuna Matata,” a song about having no worries, is now bringing Disney worries. An online petition urging Disney to drop its trademark on the Swahili phrase attracted more than 57,000 signatures as ...

How can anyone read that most memorable of popular expressions without the accompanying tune from Disney’s The Lion King playfully jumping up into their mind’s ear? What a wonderful phrase it is. A ...

As Disney starts to build momentum for the live-action remake of its animated classic The Lion King, it’s facing backlash over its trademark of the Swahili phrase ...

"Hakuna Matata" means no worries for the rest of your days -- but did the stars of Disney's re-imagining of "The Lion King" have any worries about tackling one of the iconic film's most beloved songs?

The original The Lion King movie is packed to the brim with quotable, memorable moments that every '90s kid knows by heart. The catchiest of them all, of course, is "Hakuna Matata," Timon and Pumbaa's ...

Hakuna matata is a Swahili phrase that roughly means, “No problem,” but Disney’s trademark of the phrase is definitely a problem. That fact didn’t stop Disney ...

When most people hear this phrase, the first thing that comes to mind, no doubt, is The Lion King and images of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa freeing themselves of worries and heartache. This is how I had ...

Former Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Congo Augustin Matata Ponyo has been placed under house arrest by the country’s Constitutional Court pending an investigation into embezzlement charges, ...

For the worried New York mom, her young son’s account about how his scout leader stripped naked and belted out a bawdy version of “Hakuna Matata” in front of the boys was a big red flag that something ...

Augustin Matata Ponyo (pictured here in 2012) served as the Democratic Republic of Congo's prime ministers for four years, leaving office in 2016 A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of ...