How does Ethiopia remember Haile Selassie?
Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's former emperor, was dethroned 50 years ago. The king,…
The 96-year-old who defied a ban on female genital cutting
Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West…
The Belgian who fell in love with African football
New Mali head coach Tom Saintfiet is a man with a passion…
‘Black tax’ – why some young Africans want to stop sending money back home
"Sending money back home or to your extended family is such a…
Ebike entrepreneur Valeria Labi: ‘If I see a problem and I think it can be solved, I follow that thread’
The British-born businesswoman behind Ghana’s first electric bike is out to woo…
Paralysis, amputation and Paralympic archery
Shaun Anderson has called sport his “saviour” as he prepares for his…
‘I found out on social media that my son had died’
As record numbers of young Africans risk their lives trying to reach…
A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?
Surrounded by towering mud ramparts, the 300,000 residents of Bentiu in South Sudan will…
The air crash and the underdogs – a triumph for a lost generation
For those watching on the beach on the morning of Wednesday, 28…
‘I’ve been sleeping under a bridge in Lagos for 30 years’
Having lived for exactly half his life under a bridge in Nigeria's…
