Is this Nigerian teen the next women’s golf prodigy?
A single moment can change the trajectory of our lives. For Nigerian Iyeneobong "Iyene" Essien, that moment came when she was just five years old. She remembers the day her dad took her to a golf course in Abuja, where she saw a boy teeing…
Meet Ghana’s first YouTuber to hit over a million subscribers
Kobina Ackon, popularly known as Wode Maya, is Ghana’s first YouTuber to hit over a million subscribers. His channel creating positive African content has won him followers and a fortune.
AT JUST 23 YEARS OLD, AMERICAN YOUTUBE megastar…
My music is different
My first album was called "Green Card" and the feeling behind that was that I was living in America and I was supposed to get a green card. So, I called my album Green Card and moved back to Ghana.
Since then, all my albums have been…
Boko Haram crisis: Nigerian women try to save their children
Fati Usman's son lies on a hospital bed in north-eastern Nigeria, looking almost lifeless.
He has difficulty breathing and looks extremely emaciated. A fly perches on his gaunt cheek.
From his size, you would think he is about two…
Tamara Walcott: Powerlifting saved me from myself
Tamara Walcott can still remember the first time she set foot in a powerlifting gym: the chalked hands, the strapped wrists, the yells and screams as lifters heaved weights off the floor.
As she took in the scene, Walcott's competitive…
Love at first sight in Paris
Andye was only in Paris for three days. On day one, she jumped aboard the Metro train that would change her life forever.
It was September 2016. Andye, born in Haiti and brought up in the US, was 25 and finishing up a Master's degree in…
‘Painting takes me over – like witchcraft’: Jadé Fadojutimi
She’s only 29 yet her paintings have already been scooped up by the Tate and fetched over £1m at auction. Now she’s thinking even bigger. On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks colour visions and anime obsessions
Acorrugated…
Climate change is happening faster than we think
Wildfires, floods, droughts, even heatwaves, it's devastating because for each of these crises, there is always a loss of lives and livelihoods.
My name is Oladosu Adenike. I am eco-feminist and climate justice activist. I started the…
Mining boss: ‘One person doesn’t have all the answers’
Answers usually do not lie with one person. They lie with different people. As a university student, I used to work in the mines during the vacations, and then when I finished, I joined as a metallurgical engineer.
When I started what…
Queen Elizabeth II and Africa: A long-standing relationship
Queen Elizabeth II is said to have had a special place in her heart for Africa, and she was on the continent during some key moments in her life.
The then-Princess Elizabeth was lodging at the now-closed Treetops Hotel in a rural part…
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