Akorfa Searyoh

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Makeup artist puts Makoko on the map

Makoko is one of the inner-city slums in Nigeria. Get in a…

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Ifrah Ahmed: From powerless victim to powerful role model

As unrest broke out in 2006 in countries neighbouring Somalia, and threatened…

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How a gun crime in Lagos made a family

Deep into one night on September 19, 2018, Lagos police officers were…

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Surrogacy makes child-bearing dream come true for Canada-based African couple

Procreation is normal. The ups and downs associated with preparing for the…

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The day Stephanie Summerville cared for a Ku Klux Klansman in black-excluded America

Stephanie Summerville wanted a job after she had left university without completion…

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Priscillia Hoveyda: I talk to warlords and rescue child soldiers

What do child soldiers and a UNICEF child protection expert have in…

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Ishmael Beah: Boy soldier turned human rights activist and best-selling author

As a 13-year-old child, on the run after losing his family to…

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Denise Uwimana: ‘I gave birth during a genocide’

The 1994 Rwanda Genocide was nothing short of a horror. Nearly a…

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Kalista Sy: The woman redefining women’s rights in Senegal with a TV series

"When I was little, being a successful woman meant being a woman…

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Isaac Nabwana: Meet the man who put Uganda’s Wakaliwood on the map

I did not know how to write a script but I thought…

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