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Rebuilding DR Congo through boxing

After many years of war, the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo had to rebuild their country and Balezi Bagunda in his own small way chose to do this with boxing. Setting up his small boxing training centre in Goma, a small town

Makeup artist puts Makoko on the map

Makoko is one of the inner-city slums in Nigeria. Get in a canoe and move through the waterways to get to a destination in the town. You’ll notice churches, shops, vendors all on stilts. It’s remarkable. Home to about

How a gun crime in Lagos made a family

Deep into one night on September 19, 2018, Lagos police officers were called to a grim crime scene at a local park in the Nigerian city: a young man lay in pain in his blood that oozed from a gunshot wound. He was identified as Friday