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WATCH | “A situation like this could’ve been avoid ,” says Joburg Council speaker Colleen Makhubela. @TimesLIVE #CBDFire
Working on this with @Kal_KidanY
was a real pleasure, spent hours listening to her music and learning more about her amazing life.
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou: The barefoot nun who became Ethiopia's 'piano queen'
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A decades-old photograph from Ghana's Deo Gratias is not one of dozens snapped in a hurry to be swiped through and then forgotten.
The studio's archive of 50,000 pictures reveals a transforming society from the colonial era to independence. bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-…
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"Thank you mum!"
An Ethiopian student carried firewood at his graduation ceremony to pay tribute to his mother - signifying the work she did for years to be able to get him to school.
Ephrem Belete then handed her his cap and gown. 🎓
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The only known remains of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba - a gold-crowned tooth - has been handed to his family in Brussels. How come it ended up there in the first place? @BBCAfrica bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-…
He was overthrown just over two months into his time in office. Arrested, escaped, then re-arrested and finally sent to the secessionist Katanga region where he was executed.
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Could Bitcoin be the best way to attract investors to the Central African Republic - a country with significant deposits of diamonds and gold?
BBC Africa's @dized & @guy_bandolo report ⬇️ bbc.in/3Nr8H2M
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The former president of The Gambia was found to have laundered his money by buying a luxurious property in the US.
@dized has the full report here ⬇️ bbc.in/38pyysJ
When JFK became US president 60 years ago he set out to change his country's relationship with the newly independent nations of Africa and invited many of those in the vanguard of independence to the White House, including Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah in 1961
Of course, there was an element of realpolitik involved as Africa became a front for the Cold War but Ade Daramy argues in this piece that JFK was genuinely interested in supporting the newly independent nations. And see more photos here. bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-…
.@_AfricanUnion shares its statement on the talks with Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed including a crossing out. Also said that Abiy reiterated his commitment to dialogue.
"People come up to me and say: 'I had children because of your grandmother.'
"And that's a heart-warming feeling when your grandmother has died yet she's providing life."
The amazing story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, which benefit us all.
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I declare that this is the most important story of the day!
The Somali man who has a scorpion named after him
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This 1940s painting by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria's most celebrated 20th Century visual artist, was previously unknown and has only just come to light after being in a private collection. The Court of the Oba of Benin is now up for auction by Sotheby's. ➡ bbc.in/2GFw6Av
His sculptures in the same series from the 1980s do not have a specific context but focus on the impression of movement and the elegance of the body.
