Stories

Former Nigeria under-23 striker Ibezito Ogbonna says he is lucky to be alive after his apartment in the Israeli city of Ashdod was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza last week. The 38-year-old, who won the Israeli Cup with Hapoel Tel Aviv…

I'm James Barnor from Accra, Ghana and I've been photographing almost all the time since I can remember. Starting in 1946, 1947 when someone gave me a Baby Brownie. James Barnor started his photographic career 75 years ago. He was…

Sam Jalloh is a tennis coach in the UK who's life went from living in a slum in Sierra Leone to chasing his dream of donning the country's national team's tracksuit, playing the sport he loves so dearly. This is his story. Life was…

How Ronald Kabuye, a trombonist from a slum in Katwe, Uganda; fell in love with playing music and found his way to a bigger better stage. When I lost my dad I had to stay with my mum and I was separated from my siblings. So it was not a…

My husband ran a newspaper that was very critical of Hissene Habré and one day men came to get him. Our house was completely ransacked but my husband and I managed to escape. I left with nothing but a pair of jeans and as we ran we heard…

Johnny Smythe was one of very few West Africans to fly with Britain’s air force during the Second World War and his son, Eddie Smythe shares his story; for too long has passed for many stories to remain untold. A Sierra Leonean, Johnny…

Nurses from Africa are a vital part of the UK’s medical workforce. Cecilia Anim who migrated from Ghana to the UK in 1972 is one nurse who has made her mark in the UK’s National Health Service. Humans of Africa is celebrating her…

The colonial era put a whirl spin on true cultural identities by teaching schoolchildren in English, ignoring Kenya’s several languages including the widely spoken, Kiswahili. By the time of independence, mother-tongues were at risk of…

When Olpha Selepe told her children she wanted to release her own pop song, they pleaded with her not to. They didn't want to hurt her feelings, but it just wasn't what 65-year-old retired teachers did. Her siblings agreed, urging her…

Two Ethiopian soldiers have given dramatic accounts of a co-ordinated night-time raid on their camps at the start of the Tigray crisis last month by fighters linked to the now-overthrown regional administration. The Tigray People's…