West Africa
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 (GWR) for the most head shot photographs taken in a single hour. In September 2024, the 28-year-old photographer broke the previous record of 500 headshots in just 60 minutes, taking an incredible 897. “The most headshot photographs taken in one hour…
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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...
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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,...
