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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…
Eritrean cyclists in pursuit of inspirational Girmay
Eritrea's Biniam Girmay is a hero in his cycling-mad homeland. The first…
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…
