Danai Nesta Kupemba

218 Articles

Fake CV lands top ‘engineer’ in jail for 15 years

The man who had been chief engineer at South Africa’s state-owned passenger…

Danai Nesta Kupemba Danai Nesta Kupemba

Sudan conflict: A front-row seat to my country falling apart

Before December, when I travelled on a reporting trip from my home…

Zeinab Mohammed Salih Zeinab Mohammed Salih

‘Mpox made my throat so painful I couldn’t sleep’

Egide Irambona, 40, sits bare-chested on his hospital bed, next to the…

Mercy Juma Mercy Juma

‘We are using a very old bike’: meet Ghana’s first blind Paralympic cyclist

There are no velodromes in Ghana. But there is a Paralympic track cyclist.…

Tanya Aldred Tanya Aldred

The children bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak

Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected…

Rwanda genocide: My return home after 30 years

I left my home in Rwanda, the country of my birth, 30…

Victoria Uwonkunda Victoria Uwonkunda

Tunde Onakoya: Nigerian chess marathon record breaker

Under the beaming lights of New York's iconic Times Square, Nigerian chess…

Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama: The artist clothing London’s brutalist icon

London's grey and angular Barbican Centre is now a sea of pink…

Penny Dale Penny Dale

Sérgio Mendes, the musician who left Brazil to bring the sounds of his country to the world

Bringing Brazilian music to the world and the world to Brazilian music:…

Felipe Maia Felipe Maia

Nigeria, twins and a love-hate relationship

On our arrival in Nigeria's self-proclaimed capital of twins to investigate the…

Peter MacJob & Alex Last Peter MacJob & Alex Last