Martha Koome – from women’s right campaigner to Supreme Court chief justice
Appointed as Kenya's first female chief justice in May 2021, Martha Koome…
Wavinya Ndeti: Defying sexist bullies ahead of Kenya’s elections
Wavinya Ndeti has defied bullying, attempts to discredit her academic achievements and…
The young woman cashing out from Kenya’s election rallies
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Seun Kuti: ‘Why I revived my father’s political party’
Seun Kuti is a formidable force to contend with in the Nigerian…
Isaac Cudjoe: British-Ghanaian championing youth politics in the UK
British-Ghanaian Isaac Cudjoe leads in politics in his town, Ipswich in the…
Tito Mboweni: South Africa’s finance minster known for a Twitter roast chicken fail
Far from the cliché of a grey-suited quiet man of numbers, South…
Pierre Kompany’s long road from DRC camp to Belgium’s first black mayor
Vincent Kompany’s life is the stuff of little boys’ and girls’ dreams.…
In pictures: The art fuelling Sudan’s revolution
Murals have been mushrooming on the walls around the military headquarters in…