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Nujuum Hashi, who has overcome traditional prejudice to become a respected artist in Somalia, decided on her career as she drew pictures in the sand as a seven-year-old in the capital, Mogadishu. Her family had no fixed abode as this…

It is something that those who didn't experience it will never forget, let alone those of us who did. There were 22 of us rescued by the fishermen, but I was the only woman. It was very, very hard. The night before travelling on the…

My name is Owoidogho Oton, the mother of a one-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown into a bush. Godwin Aweh is my husband. We are not legally married, but we live together. He is from Esit Eket in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. He used…

My name is Fatima Sahra Ahmed. I'm a mother of three, and two of them happen to be children living with special-needs disabilities. I have a five year old son living with cerebral palsy, and then I have a one and a half year old…

On a stopover in Mali on his way to Libya, Bakary Jammeh abandoned plans to board a boat to Italy. He had a brother there, but Jammeh became convinced he should put their reunion on hold and turn back in search of gold. Jammeh had met a…

My name is Godswill Udoh. I am 35 years old. I am from Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. I am not employed at the moment. I was arrested on November 26, 2010. I don’t even understand what they (security agents) were trying to achieve. At the…

When I started talking about mental health, my brother pulled me aside and said, "You want to tell people you're crazy?" Here in Uganda specifically, that is a big taboo. My name is Emily Banya, co-founder of Utalii Creative. Around…

Gabriella Sokari Tolofari, was four years old when she got missing. She would have been five this year.