Jailed for ‘plotting’ to kill a former president, this Congolese poet filmed his escape dressed as a woman

It was not easy for someone who had been sentenced to death to be able to escape from a prison…

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In these Namibian Ethnic group, wife swapping is a centuries-old practice that still continues today.

Africa is a continent with a population of an estimated 1. 2 billion people, 2000 languages and an uncountable number…

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‘Men shouldn’t step in the kitchen and that’s how it should be’ – Uganda’s president stirs debate.

Controversial Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has once again stirred another debate, but this time around, on gender roles. He stated…

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Should this teacher be arrested for fighting student who called him n****r? [Video]

A band teacher from Maywood Academy High School in Los Angeles has been in the news for engaging in a…

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Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. From University of Michigan

Ciara Sivels knew she was going to make history, but she really wanted to focus on finishing her Ph.D. program…

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Gambia defies IMF warning and falls for $34 million French aid

Despite warning from the International Monetary Fund against borrowing money to ease the burden on debt stock, Gambia gleefully accepted…

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At 15, Nigerian Kimberly Anyadike became the youngest black female pilot to fly solo across U.S.

The new generation of black people all over the world is pushing the limits, going against the odds and most…

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How Africa’s largest tax rebellion by Igbo market women disrupted colonisation in 1929

It is seen as the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period.…

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Diagnosed with HIV as a pregnant teen, Livey Van Wyk beat the odds to become Namibia’s youngest mayor

Jo-Ann Livey Van Wyk was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 17 while she was still at school, and…

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Meet the Cape Verdean student in the U.S leading the African nation’s first-ever Olympic swim team

Latroya Pina is the first member of her family to learn how to swim and now she has been selected…

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