From fighting locust invasion by eating them to armed Christians shooting back, here are 2019’s odd stories

Michael Eli Dokosi is a journalist and a formidable writer with a decade's experience. He is a blogger, voice-over artist and MC. Dokosi is fluid with both spoken and written communication. He is for the African cause and reckons Africa shall regain its rightful place in world affairs soon.

• How soil exposes racial violence against enslaved Blacks in Alabama Museum
• Why the Huli Wigmen of PNG grow their hair and then cut it off to make flamboyant wigs
• Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, power couple whose yrs together on stage, screen and in activism was enviable
• Nobody documented Black life in Cleveland from the 1920s until the 60s like Allen E. Cole