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Tendayi Gwata: Zimbabwe woman’s struggle to avoid mastectomy

A 44-year-old woman in Zimbabwe, Tendayi Gwata, is battling to avoid a…

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Fritz Pollard: First black American football quarterback and first black coach

Fritz Pollard Jr suffered from Alzheimer's during the final years of his…

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Len Johnson: The boxer with 93 wins who could never become British champion

Most boxers will tell you the punches don't hurt as much as…

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‘I made a new hand for my younger brother’

This is a story of how after a life-changing accident, a man…

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Hopewell Chin’ono: ‘I was jailed for a month after exposing corruption’

Hopewell Chin'ono is a journalist from Zimbabwe who was reporting on corruption…

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Eddy Kenzo: I’m a hustler, I’m a ghetto child

For someone who spent most of his childhood on the street, Uganda's…

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Chengetayi Mnisi-Samoyo: ‘Why I left my job to become a dancer’

In the African context, leaving your job to pursue your dream is…

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Tawanda Kanhema: Zimbabwean photographer mapping the world’s unmapped locations

Since 2018, Tawanda Kanhema has been carrying Street View gear across thousands…

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Fatima Zahra Jaffar Jalloh: The youngest tech-voc teacher in Sierra Leone

Fatima Zahra Jaffar Jalloh wants to prove a point that females are…

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