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Inside South Africa’s ‘ruthless’ gang-controlled gold mines
Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a…
Burning old TVs to survive: The toxic trade in electrical waste
You can see thick plumes of smoke rise from the Agbogbloshie dumpsite…
‘Pregnant’ for 15 months: Inside the ‘miracle’ fertility scam
Chioma is adamant that Hope, the baby boy she is holding in…
Celebrating the king banished by the British
The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi…
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn…
He’s 16 and hyped as Usain Bolt’s successor – but Australia’s Gout Gout is keeping his feet on the ground
The schoolboy’s rapid rise has drawn inevitable comparisons with the Jamaican, but…
‘The challenge attracted me’: Peter Odemwingie’s move from Premier League striker to golf pro
It’s unbelievable,” says Peter Odemwingie. “I never thought I could get so obsessed…
‘Rape me, not my daughter’ – women tell BBC of sexual violence in Sudan’s civil war
Sudan is at breaking point. After 17 months of a brutal civil…
How Arsenal became synonymous with black identity
When Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka walked into a pub in Manchester to…
Toiling on a Kenyan flower farm to send fresh roses to Europe
On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne…
