As a young girl growing up in Enoosaen, a rural Maasai village in southwestern Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya‘s fate seemed determined from birth. After undergoing female genital...
Since 2006, a group of women and girls from Kilifi County in Kenya have collected washed-up flip-flops along the Indian Ocean weekly. The collected trash is...
Lebani Sirenje is sitting on a rooftop on Auret Street in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Every few seconds, he glances at a picture of the late South African...
After enrolling as a distance learning student at the International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Justin Irabor quickly realised he needed help merging work and school....
Mbah Javis was in his final year of high school in Batibo in Momo Division in the Northwest Region in 2016 when war broke out in...
14-year-old Xolile Masango from Macetjeni in eastern Lubombo in the kingdom of Eswatini wants to be a doctor when she grows up to treat her sickly...
In one of the training rooms at the lower level of the Senegal National Arena in Dakar, four men are warming up. They are waiting for...
When a neighbour recommended Morit International School to Ijeoma Obiora three years ago and told her the tuition was paid not in cash but through plastic...
Almost every morning at 6 a.m., 49-year-old Mahfuh Usman sets out for the Sanaga River, some 63 km from his home in Nkozoa, a locality in...
At only nine years old, Adejoke Lasisi began learning to weave aso-oke under the watchful eyes of her mother. It would take her another 15 years...
Joshua Osariemen Akugbe, also known as @jjosh_artz on Instagram, is a 23-year-old artist based in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. “I’ve been drawing since I was...
By Walter Marwizi for bird story agency
Through her weekly 30-minute radio show, popular DJ and retired nurse Grace Akpegi is sensitising her audience and promoting behaviour that protects people from malaria. By...
You find yourself on the second-highest peak in eastern Kenya, in the thick of the Iveti forest with its famed cedar and pine trees. Near the...
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