Letter from Africa: Why Queen of England has a throne in Nigeria
In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about the throne reserved for the Queen of...
China: The men who are single and the women who don’t want kids
A once-in-a-decade population census has shown that births in China have fallen to their lowest level since the 1960s - leading to calls for an...
Eritrea viewpoint: I fought for independence but I’m still waiting for freedom
Eritrea is officially marking 30 years of independence from Ethiopia. Former BBC Tigrinya editor Samuel Ghebhrehiwet was a soldier who fought for independence. He...
The black children wrongly sent to ‘special’ schools in the 1970s
In 1960s and 70s Britain, hundreds of black children were labelled as “educationally subnormal”, and wrongly sent to schools for pupils who were deemed...
The app that lets you pay to control another person’s life
How would you feel about being able to pay to control multiple aspects of another person’s life? A new app is offering you the...
