This ex Sudanese child soldier was inspired by P. Diddy to become a successful hip-hop artist
Emmanuel Jal doesn’t know how old he is. He tells people he’s 38.
“I don’t know exactly when I was born, just because I was born when my country was at war,” says the chart-topping hip-hop musician, who is from South!-->!-->!-->…
The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees
A man in southern Senegal has set himself the ambitious task of planting five million trees over the next five years.
This visionary project came to Adama Diémé when he returned home to the Casamance region in 2020 after a few years!-->!-->!-->…
I saved an elephant from drowning
The river was deep and unpredictable, and infested with crocodiles
I live in Samburu, in northern Kenya, but I was raised even farther north, on the border of Ethiopia. Where I grew up, there were elephants living in the wild. I was!-->!-->!-->…
I lost my memory – and fell in love with my husband for the second time
When I see our wedding photos, it’s like looking at someone else’s.
One cold, crisp evening in February 2016, I went on a white-water kayaking course in Hertfordshire. I’d had lessons, but I was still a beginner and my skills weren’t!-->!-->!-->…
Akon’s Wakanda, grazing goats and a crumbling crypto dream
RnB singer Akon says his much-delayed plans for Akon City - an African metropolis on the Senegalese coast - are "100,000% moving".
Although goats are currently grazing on the site, he says that critics will look "super stupid" in the!-->!-->!-->…
The boy named ‘Wealthy’ who weighs half what he should
Little Haftom is nearly five years old.
His name means "wealthy" in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should.
As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show his spindly arms and legs, his mother!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
‘My dad, the claw hair clip inventor’
It was the hair accessory of choice in the 1990s - fashionable yet functional - making a comeback in Covid lockdown when a trip to the salon wasn't possible.
But few people realise the claw clip started life in a humble workshop in!-->!-->!-->…
Obituary: Songwriter & producer, Thomas Bell
The unusual combination of a French horn, a grand piano, an electric sitar and a glockenspiel provided the introduction to Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time), a swooning soul ballad that took the Delfonics, a Philadelphia vocal trio, to!-->…
Running with the Hadza – the race celebrating a way of life
A fire crackles just after dawn in north Tanzania's bushlands. The sun is starting to rise over the Yaeda Valley and the start of a new day means one thing for the Hadza tribe. It's time to begin their daily ritual of finding the food that!-->…
Obituary: Football legend, Pele
Global superstar of football who was a hugely prolific goalscorer and three times a World Cup winner with Brazil.
Pelé, who has died aged 82 after suffering from cancer, is widely regarded as the greatest footballer the game has ever!-->!-->!-->…
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