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‘Try or die’ – one man’s determination to get to the Canary Islands
Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is…
‘I found out I had cervical cancer while I was pregnant’
Dorothy Masasa happily walks down a dirt road on a sunny afternoon,…
The journey that helped save Nigeria’s art for the nation
The Nigerian National Museum in Lagos sits in the city like a…
Kidnapped and trafficked twice – a sex worker’s life in Sierra Leone
Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of…
Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems – but there’s still hope
Somalia may be one of the poorest countries in the world and…
Massive sex tape leak could be a ploy for power in central Africa
What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal…
I saw athlete on fire running towards me after attack, neighbour tells BBC
Warning: This article contains details some readers may find disturbing "I was…
‘What an able body can do, I can do’ – Nigeria’s powerlifting power
The 39-year-old wheelchair user is part of Nigeria’s hugely successful para-powerlifting squad…
Kenyan and queer: how going public as gay and non-binary has led to a life of activism and optimism
When Chris Muriithi (they/them) woke up to a stream of messages and…
I was a black child raised in a white supremacist cult.
When Jerald Walker was a boy, his school principal called him into…
