When Amina Isa walked into her classroom to mingle with her new classmates after relocating to a new town, she found herself completely isolated. Born with...
Growing up in Senegal’s third-largest city, Thiés, situated some 70 kilometres east of Dakar, friends Mariama Djambony Badji and Papa Mafall Diop dreamed of becoming architects...
A pivotal moment for author, poet, and anthropologist Lebohang Masango came after a children’s book she had written helped shift uniform policy at a school in...
When Caroline Dick lost her husband to an electric shock accident at his workplace in Lagos in 2011, she couldn’t have known that this was just...
The TOPAS hub in the bustling neighbourhood of Surulere in Lagos is one of a wave of tech hubs opening across Africa and the energy and...
Former journalist Precious Tariro Guwira was always naturally talented with handicrafts, but she never for a moment considered crafting as a career path, despite being the...
When Femi Olayebi was pregnant with her first child, she searched the length and breadth of her home town of Ibadan but couldn’t find a baby...
While doing her first-degree research project at the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, in 2006, Edirin Metsegharun realised her life’s purpose in what...
The World Cup features four teams from the continent: Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Morocco. These teams have brought top players to the tournament, including Asisat...
The FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is currently underway with 32 participating nations. Africa has four representatives in the tournament: Nigeria, South...
Jecinta Njoki Kimani graduated with a biochemistry degree, but you wouldn’t guess that when you walked into her office. Located in Nairobi, the first thing one...
“One of the beautiful aspects of vinyl is its ability to preserve cultural heritage. In Africa, vinyl has become more than just a medium for music;...
Stella and Winnie Mutai were virtually inseparable after being born a mere five minutes apart, and that is how it stayed until university. Then came their...
Growing up, Jide Martin consumed a lot of Western media and comics. Like young consumers across the continent, however, he grew increasingly frustrated with the way...
Fatawu Bawa Ayamga, a 30-year-old journalist from Ghana, found that writing just a few hundred words in an article was too limiting. To better express his...
It is a Thursday afternoon at Lido Beach in Mogadishu, and a group of young boys are playing football on the white sands while fishermen sort...
“When you are rolling in agony, yeah, they call it a crisis. But your bones are on fire, and you can’t even describe it. They say,...
Praise Wakulti Illya is a Nigerian nurse who has been critical in assisting expectant mothers safely bring their bundles of joy into the world. Focusing on...
In 2017, students at Bukura Agricultural College in western Kenya proposed a business idea to their school. Final-year students studying for the college’s Diploma in Animal...
When Theresa Bagoniah gave birth to her 1.3-kilogram baby early, at 32 weeks and two days rather than an average of 40 weeks, her world and...
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