‘I found out on social media that my son had died’
As record numbers of young Africans risk their lives trying to reach…
I was hit by a subway train – but have no memory of it
When I was 25, I was working in real estate in New York. I…
She ran 104 marathons in 104 days after surviving cancer
A woman who took up running after she lost her left leg…
I was struggling in New York so I started my fashion brand in Rwanda
I feel like if I had stayed there, there's no way I…
I was shot five times because I looked like the man sleeping with his girlfriend
Everything was grey. I could hear my friend Priscilla screaming and voices…
The mystery behind my mixed-race – Hiram Johnson’s uncomfortable story
As a former policeman, Hiram Johnson’s knack for investigations led him to…
The Black Panther who hijacked a jet to Algeria and started again in France
It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two…
Fadji Maina: The first Nigerien scientist to work for NASA
Fadji Maina has become the first scientist from Niger to work for…
Fatou Bensouda: The Gambian woman who hunts tyrants
As chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in the Hague, Fatou…
Tanitoluwa Adewumi: The eight-year-old Nigerian who won a state chess championship in US
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, second son in the Adewumi family is a rising chess…
