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The Gambian man who took on a tyrant and made history

In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy pays tribute to a man whose death…

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My life as a ‘fifth wife’ in Niger: The woman who fought her enslaver in court and won

Hadizatou Mani-Karoau was sold off to a local chief, aged just 12, to become a wahaya or "fifth wife". "It…

I own my sexuality

'Right from when I was born, in the hospital, they couldn't tell my gender. They will have to completely unwrap…

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