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Kim Emenike: ‘I made it to university, but then I fell through the cracks’

University life is tough and if there's no support you can barely make it. The summer before Kim Emenike turned…

 Sarah McDermott, BBC Sarah McDermott, BBC

The politics of street food: the South African chef championing Zulu cuisine

For Mmabatho Molefe, whose Cape Town restaurant reinvents ‘peasant dishes’, cooking is a way to fight prejudice When Mmabatho Molefe…

Lizzy Davies Lizzy Davies

Searching for my roots in an Algerian cemetery

In our series of letters from African journalists, Maher Mezahi writes about what looking for the branches of his family…

Maher Mehazi Maher Mehazi