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Idza Luhumyo: Fifth Kenyan to win Caine Prize for African writing

Author Idza Luhumyo, who has just won the Caine Prize for African writing, has said that she and her fellow…

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Yayi Diouf: Challenging Senegal’s patriarchy as a fisherwoman

It was the year 2006 in Dakar, Senegal. Yayi Bayum Diouf, a single mother of 3 children lived in Thiaroue-sur-Mer,…

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How ‘Eric the Eel’ had one bad swim and became an enduring Olympic legend

The swimmer in Lane Seven was twenty-four months old when the most accidentally famous athlete in the history of Africa…

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