Nzekwe Henry

140 Articles

From street hawking to building a successful tech company

Circumstances meant that Edwin Shayo had to sell cassettes on the streets…

Nzekwe Henry Nzekwe Henry

From a gay man in Nigeria to a refugee in the US

Living in Nigeria as a gay man was never easy, but the…

Edafe Okporo Edafe Okporo

Defying the odds: Stories of African refugees who have become global icons

A refugee as defined by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…

Adeola Babatunde Adeola Babatunde

A night to remember at the hospital

Men, no — replace that with dads, have not done well with…

 Hilarry Lisimba Hilarry Lisimba

My battle with bipolar disorder

I was first employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in 1995…

Margaret W. Mania Margaret W. Mania

My boyfriend proposed to me on a bus and died that night

How would you feel should your expectations be violated? When your sense…

Anonymous Anonymous

Google Doodle honours renowned Kenyan author Margaret Atieno Ogola

Global tech giant Google has honoured the late Margaret Atieno Ogola, a…

Lorine Towett Lorine Towett

7 returnees talk about living and doing business in Africa

To move abroad anywhere is to start over again, according to some…

Zaina Adamu Zaina Adamu

Ghanaian-American editor wins black journalists’ award

The Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah has been named the…

Francis Akhalbey Francis Akhalbey

Love yourself so much that you don’t feel the wanting from loneliness

I can’t believe you're 38! THIRTY EIGHT. F***ing eight years older than…

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