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How Pele’s 1969 visit reshaped Nigerian football

In 1969, with a civil war raging, global football's biggest star arrived in Benin City as part of a visit…

Joshua Adetunji Joshua Adetunji

Rwandan genocide orphan’s ‘miracle’ WhatsApp reunion

A girl who was orphaned at the age of two during the 1994 Rwandan genocide has recently found some of…

Samba Cyuzuzo, BBC Samba Cyuzuzo, BBC

Ebo Taylor: The Ghanaian musician who helped put West African music on the world map

Ebo Taylor became one of Ghana's major prolific musicians in the 1950s and '60s, making his signature Ghanaian highlife that…

Ekow Barnes, CNN Ekow Barnes, CNN