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31 days ago

Nigeria head coach Justine Madugu: ‘As Africans, we love expressing ourselves’ ⊕⊕

Library science graduate who made the Ballon d’Or shortlist has Wafcon title defence and World Cup in his sights

At 61, most top-level head coaches have nostalgic moments as they reflect on the high p…

‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film

He was mentored by Buddy Guy as a teen and played for Michelle Obama in the White House. Now, the 26-year-old Mississippi guitar hero is bringing the blues back into the spotlight – and taking it to …

71 days ago

Demands for slavery reparations are historical nonsense and cartoonish in their simplicity. If Britain has to pay, so should descendants of the Africans and Arabs who also profited from the vile trade: NIGEL BIGGAR

Guilt can be good. It is healthy when it alerts us to having wronged someone and prompts us to put things right by apologising and repairing any damage we've done.

74 days ago

West Africans deported by the US were denied their rights, says lawyer

Men were sent on from Ghana despite ‘risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment’

A lawyer for 11 west Africans deported by the US to Ghana said they had been returned to their home countries d…

5 months ago

Barbados poet laureate on mission to share stories of enslavement

Esther Phillips says her poetry’s ‘ultimate goal’ is to achieve justice for those who suffered at hands of European colonisers

Esther Phillips, the Barbados poet laureate, grew up next to Drax Hall Es…

8 months ago

‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap

When Yaw Bediako lost his father to liver cancer, it set…

9 months ago

Thanks to Trump, it is now in Europe’s self-interest to compensate Africa for slavery | Liliane Umubyeyi

As the US rips up its rules-based order and threatens sovereign nations, this is the time to make allies. Reparations might help

Imagine this: a continent scarred by centuries of violence and exploita…

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