In a corner of the new Museum of West African Art, visitors can marvel at a sample display of the cultural treasures that adorned the royal palace that once stood …
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Seeing double: the wooden carvings that celebrate the Yorùbá’s unique connection to twins
When the Nigerian art collector, curator and dealer Kayode Adegbola was given a pair of Yorùbá twin statuettes – ère ìbejì – in 2022 as a reward for a successful …
Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women …
West Africans deported by the US to Ghana are now fending for themselves in Togo after being dumped in the country without documents, according to lawyers and deportees. The latest …
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Disabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportation
A disabled Nigerian man who has lived in the UK for almost 40 years has won an appeal to stay in the country despite the Home Office wanting to deport …
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Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
Lebanon: ‘They would shake, cry and move away from the windows’ Mohamad El Dirany, 24 I had just started teaching at a school in the Bekaa valley when war broke …
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Visa hassles and pricey flights: is the dream of seamless intra-African travel dead?
For the Kenyan DJ Coco Em, planning how to get around Africa for gigs can take as much time as crafting her setlists. Last November she was due to perform …
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‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown
“We have lost so much already, and we don’t realise it,” says Eparama Qerewaqa, recalling the cyclones that hit his community in Fiji. When he was a child, Qerewaqa, now …
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‘Beware of 419!’: how a playwright delved into Nigerian scams – and what it taught him about money
Inua Ellams was walking through the streets of Lagos, the bustling former capital of Nigeria, when he began noticing a recurring phrase, spray-painted on to the sides of homes. “This …
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Chimamanda has returned to fiction after 12 years. But is the author stuck in the 2010s?
It’s summer reading time, and I have finally dived into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count, her highly anticipated return to fiction after a 12-year hiatus. This week, I give a …
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