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Trailblazing ballerina Michaela DePrince dies aged 29

Ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who performed with Beyoncé and was seen by…

Noor Nanji & Malu Cursino Noor Nanji & Malu Cursino

Nigerian, Helen Williams sets record for longest wig

A Nigerian woman has set the Guinness world record for making the…

BBC BBC

Amoako Boafo – the Ghanaian artist who has exhibited in space

Amoako Boafo, who has become a superstar in the art world, has…

Stephen Smith Stephen Smith

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…