The 96-year-old who defied a ban on female genital cutting
Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West…
What Killed Harmony Ball-Stribling?
The last day Byron Stribling spent with his wife, Harmony, was the…
Nurses working in fear: A visit to mpox epicentre
Medical staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in…
‘Mpox made my throat so painful I couldn’t sleep’
Egide Irambona, 40, sits bare-chested on his hospital bed, next to the…
The children bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak
Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected…
The Kenyan enthralled by the healing power of plants
Martin Odhiambo has always been interested in the healing properties of plants…
I’d rather help my customers stay healthy than make money
The reason I was named Emama Fishka (Mama Whistle) was because there…
Ambroise Bertin: ‘First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned’
"First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned." That's how many on…
Jalikatu: ‘I am the Sierra Leonean eye doctor who lived through the civil war’
Jalikatu is a Sierra Leonean eye doctor and one of only four…
My battle with bipolar disorder
I was first employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in 1995…
