West Africa
How Alma Asinobi exposed passport privilege despite making history traveling to all 7 continents with a Nigerian passport
Alma Asinobi, a Nigerian travel content creator, did not exactly beat the record she desired, but she did put Nigeria on the map by carrying the Nigerian flag across continents. In an Instagram post, she celebrated her success, writing, “Our Nigerian flag is officially the first and fastest flag to visit all seven continents! I…
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Meet the Nigerian now holding the Guinness World Record for most head shot photographs taken in one hour
Saidu Abdulrahman, a Nigerian photographer, is the current holder of the Guinness World Record...
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Meet Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, who is now Ghana’s first female world boxing champion
Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey is a Ghanaian boxing trailblazer. She was 27 years old when she became...
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Meet Stephanie Onusiriuka, the Nigerian teen gymnast preparing to compete at 2028 Olympics
At only 15, Stephanie Onusiriuka is making a name for herself in gymnastics. The young Nigerian’s...
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Nigeria’s Junior Yellow Greens are the first female cricket team from West Africa to qualify for a World Cup
Nigeria’s women’s under-19 cricket team, the Junior Yellow Greens, made history by qualifying for the ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup, which is being held in Malaysia. The Junior Yellow...
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Burkina Faso bans use of colonial wigs in courts
Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of Burkina Faso, has banned judges from donning wigs that are symbolic of colonial French and British outfits. Colonial-era wigs have long been associated with foreign...
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Ghana becomes 5th African country to remove visa restrictions for Africans, here are the other four
Ghana is now enabling visa-free travel to citizens of all African countries after President Nana Akufo-Addo approved the initiative in December. Following the president’s promise during the Africa...
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Ghana’s iconic Kente cloth earns UNESCO recognition
UNESCO has added Ghana’s Kente cloth to its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The famous material comes from the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana and dates back to the...
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Inspiring story of man who earned his degree after 12 years in the university and 2 suicide attempts
Twelve years seems like a lengthy time to graduate from the university, especially when you spend five of those years pursuing surgery and medicine and never finding your feet. This was Ini Amah’s...
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Nigerian barber goes viral for graduating with First Class honors: ‘This is massive’
A determined young Nigerian is demonstrating that with hard work and perseverance, dreams can be realized. Oyinloye Emmanuel Oluwatobi, who was a student at the Federal University of Technology,...
