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How I saved my red guitar from Khartoum war zone

If you had to run for your life, with fighting all around, what would you take with you? Clothes, of…

Humans of Africa Humans of Africa

Queen of Katwe’s gambit still in play for Uganda’s slum chess players

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of…

Wycliffe Muia Wycliffe Muia

Why Gabon’s coup leader is bucking a trend by embracing democracy

Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule…

Paul Melly Paul Melly