United States

A woman who took up running after she lost her left leg to cancer has passed the Guinness World Record for most consecutive marathons. Jacky Hunt-Broersma, 46, has run 26.2-miles every day since mid-January, normally taking around five…

I feel like if I had stayed there, there's no way I would have created a brand or created a following or, you know, done what SM has done.

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

As a former policeman, Hiram Johnson’s knack for investigations led him to use his skills on his own family.

It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two women and three young children. They were Black Panthers who commandeered a Delta airliner, flew across the Atlantic and the adults never set foot in the US again, four of them…

Fadji Maina has become the first scientist from Niger to work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The 29-year-old hydrologist received her PhD in 2016, and joined the world-famous space agency in the US at the…

As chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in the Hague, Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer aims to do what other courts can’t: mete out justice to war criminals and genocidal despots.  Though recently, Fatou Bensouda has been…

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, second son in the Adewumi family is a rising chess star in the United States. In 2019 he won the New York State Championship in his age category. For him, this is just the beginning of a better life away from the danger…

The Adewumi family have fled from knocking terror in their home country of Nigeria to raising Tanitoluwa Adewumi, their second son, who is a rising chess competitor in the United States. The journey to this point however was not an easy…

Three years before Rosa Parks' bus boycott, Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji protested against racial segregation in the southern states of America. He was part of a generation of Africans who played an important role in the fight for…