Sylvia Gathoni‘s passion has turned into a career, allowing her to travel the world. It’s also given her a platform – one she’s using to highlight...
15-year-old Cameroonian Wendy Musi and her schoolmates are pushing past taboos and becoming champions of awareness and information around menstruation and female health. By Brenda Kiven...
Thanks to the growing economies and population of Africa, the needs of the continent’s built environment are offering architects a unique opportunity to influence how the...
Vlogger and photographer, Khalid Abdul has spent the last five years travelling around northern Nigeria. His pictures show why the area should be a bucket list...
By Jacques Achilles, bird story agency Michael Olawole’s passion for African designs has unleashed a wave of African print fashion on the East African island nation...
By Gabriella Opara, bird story agency Entrepreneur Kunle Adeyanju is someone who leads by example. Riding through 42 cities in 13 countries, he has campaigned to...
By Arekpitan Ikhenaode, bird story agency Kenyan poet and therapist Onyango Otieno has set out to free men from what he regards as a cage of...
By Tafadzwa Ufumeli, bird story agency “Giving back” and assisting the next generation is growing in popularity all over the continent. And as a former pro...
By Victor Eyike, bird story agency For bronze caster, Alex Agbonmwenre, the return of the Benin Bronzes is about far more than the return of looted...
A buzz of activity creates a welcoming din at Maisha Girls Safe House in the sprawling Eastlands area of Nairobi. Young girls move up and down,...
Uzoma Dunkwu is a man on a mission—to inspire generations of African children to connect with their heritage and culture. The Nigerian artist recently focused his...
In April 2020, Setsembele Siphumelele Hlanze decided she’d had enough. She’d been waiting for the world to “restart” after the early COVID-19 lockdowns, but that wasn’t...
As the midday sun shone relentlessly on the tarmac of the Whistling Morans race circuit on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the track...
In a life-sized compound located in the heart of the marbled hall of the Doudou Ndiaye Coumba Rose National Grand Theatre, Alioune Diagne offers a retrospective...
Africa had the second-fastest-growing tourism market globally before COVID-19. Now that borders are open and travellers are again exploring, Yasmine Fofana is determined to make sure...
Another ten African languages recently appeared in key online translation services, potentially raising their international profile, popularity, appeal, and use. Ewe, spoken in Ghana and Togo,...
It is a cold, drizzly morning and inside a spacious factory, where the humming, whirring, and clanking of machinery are hard on the ear and the...
For as long as she can remember, Lerato Mogoatlhe existed in two parallel universes. Taking in the views of the Johannesburg skyline, her mind would wander...
On a regular school day at a junior secondary school in south-eastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with...
If 70 is an age at which one can really slow down and look back on a life well-lived, someone forgot to inform Angela Chirenda Rugara....
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