Paschal Merumba has suffered prejudice from the day he was born. His mother refused to breastfeed her “cursed” baby, the second child in the family born with albinism; the first had already died of neglect. Merumba was thought to have contaminated t...
On a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a bracing barrage of blips, bells and breakneck beats that could blast apart a heart-rate monitor. We are at Nyege Nyege, a pan-African festival in Uganda t...
At least 136 bodies have been retrieved from Lake Victoria in east Africa after a ferry sank on Thursday afternoon. Scores more people are feared drowned. Initial estimates suggested the MV Nyerere was carrying about 300 passengers when it capsized...