A moment that changed me: after losing my hearing, newspapers helped me find a way to cope
The psychological effects of going deaf as a child were unbearable. But after stumbling across a front-page headline, reading the news helped me discover new worlds
It was a long time ago, on a Friday afternoon, on a street in Khartoum.…
A moment that changed me: Ben Okri – realising my dream to become a novelist at the age of 19
I wrote the first draft in a ghetto in Lagos, working on it at 4am. With its publication the life I was meant to live began.
Family legend has it that I began reading the Times at around the age of four. At school in London I was that…
A moment that changed me: the death of my father, a coat of red nail varnish – and coming out to my family
I was in a Pret in Cambridge city centre when I got the call: the senior tutor of my college, Pembroke, told me I had to come and see him. I was needed urgently back in London for a family emergency, and he would drive me to the train…
Iñaki Williams: ‘Playing for Ghana allows me to get closer to my roots’
Born in Spain but now at the World Cup with Ghana, the striker agonised over his decision to play for his parents’ birthplace
There is a light in Kweku’s eyes. “This is just incredible, crazy,” he says. “You see it from the outside and…
Kyle Walker’s tough childhood gives him resolve to prove people wrong
England defender, fit again and raring to go, grew up on an estate where he witnessed a fatal arson attack and a suicide.
Kyle Walker has had surgery on a ruptured groin but says he is now fit to challenge for a place in Gareth…
Ghana’s Mohammed Kudus: ‘Neymar is not better than me, just more high-profile’
The Ajax playmaker discusses the recent, testy encounter with Brazil, interest from Everton and his country’s chances in Qatar.
“He’s not better than me. He’s just a higher profile player, that’s all,” comes the retort. He is Neymar,…
Tanzania Precision Air crash: ‘I tried to save pilots but was knocked unconscious’
A fisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday's plane crash which killed 19 people in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, has described how he tried to save the pilots stuck in the cockpit and how he nearly lost his life…
I am 46, single and pregnant – This is my story
Not having a child would be the greatest regret of my life. And with my biological clock ticking down, if I was waiting for the right man to come along before I did it, well, I might just find myself out of time. I decided to take control…
Muhoozi Kainerugaba – Uganda’s ambitious tweeting general
The son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has turned out to be an army general who has gained notoriety for politically explosive tweets that have sent local and regional politics into a tailspin.
The Nigerian woman cleaning up a land soaked in oil
In a land soaked in oil and scorched by fires, one scientist, Eucharia Nwaichi, comes armed with knowledge and a calm but unshakeable determination to detoxify.
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