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 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;...
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...
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...
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...
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