Stories

Global superstar of football who was a hugely prolific goalscorer and three times a World Cup winner with Brazil. Pelé, who has died aged 82 after suffering from cancer, is widely regarded as the greatest footballer the game has ever…

Locked up at 21, I discovered I was creative and could express myself through words. Now I am a poet, a broadcaster, an author – things I’d never have believed possible. It all started in 2008, when I got involved in a fight in a club…

I was in a Pret in Cambridge city centre when I got the call: the senior tutor of my college, Pembroke, told me I had to come and see him. I was needed urgently back in London for a family emergency, and he would drive me to the train…

His death last year at 41 left a chasm in the industry. In a new BBC documentary, director Cassie Quarless explores the legacy of one of the most important – and controversial – designers of the 21st century ‘There is a whole generation…

My name is Angela Mugo. I am a software developer. Originally, I wanted to do analytical chemistry, but then when I started to do it, I realised I didn't like it. I wanted to go more into hardware. To work with heavy power, current and…

I was born and bred in Sophiatown. It was called Little Harlem. We had jazz, we had dancing clubs. You had dancing clubs where people would dance against each other. There was so much going on in Sophiatown that the birds had to fly…

Selamawit Teklay, Ethiopian beauty queen from the war torn Tigray region narrates her ordeal fleeing her home to seek asylum in the UK. I had a difficult and scary time to reach the UK. I have seen Tigrayan brothers drown in the sea.…

The first time I step foot in Africa, I’m married to a king and I have a long-standing road to go ahead for Eti-Oti and our people and I’m just really happy to be here. It’s just like a fairytale that came true. It was actually our…

Everything was grey. I could hear my friend Priscilla screaming and voices all around me, but I couldn’t see anything.

The pain, anger and sorrow that resulted from the death of his 3-year old son, Cyril was enough to break Aguibou Bougobali Sanou, a professionally trained dancer. He found healing in what he did best – dancing.