What will ‘ambitious’ Chelle bring to Nigeria job?

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Eric Chelle will be the first non-Nigerian African to take charge of the Super Eagles, but what will the Malian bring to the role?

The Premier League star who became a golf pro

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Former Premier League and Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie is now a golf professional with ambitions to boost the sport in his homeland.

‘I had never seen anyone die before’ – Adebayor on Togo bus attack

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Former Premier League striker Emmanuel Adebayor says the gun attack on the Togo team 15 years ago has made "a huge difference" in his life.

‘She’s my life’: A mother’s mission to help Nigerians with cerebral palsy

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Cerebral palsy is believed to be one of the most common neurological disorders in Nigeria.

Can Ghana’s new president meet the voters’ high expectations?

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John Mahama was elected on his pledges to solve the economic crisis but won't find it easy, analysts say.

Africa’s capoeira kids

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Capoeira, a sport mixing martial art and dance, is one of Brazil’s biggest cultural exports. Now a new generation of African children are rediscovering its appeal and African roots.

The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin – Africa’s overlooked independence heroine

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Blouin ran in the same circles as liberation icons like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré.

Tanzania’s fuel revolution slowed down by lack of filling stations

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The authorities want vehicles to switch to gas but the transition has been hampered by a lack of filling stations.

Fire devastates one of Africa’s largest clothes markets

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Ghana's Kantamanto market has been devastated by fire with traders urging the government to help.

Kenya investigates space junk that fell on village

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Experts are trying to figure out how a 500kg metal ring ended up crashing into Kenya.