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Gabriella Opara

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Gabriella Opara

KUNLE ADEYANJU

Polio crusading entrepreneur bikes across Africa

Kunle Adeyanju has travelled to 42 cities in 13 countries on a mission to help eradicate polio. What he experienced runs counter to prevailing narratives about the countries

  • Gabriella Opara
7 min read

Igbo language defies extinction

In 2012, Unesco said the language would have vanished by 2025 but 10 years later Igbo is one of the five top languages in Nigeria

  • Gabriella Opara
8 min read
Knight to the rescue: Babatunde Onakoya (below), a chess champion himself and the founder of Chess in Slums Africa, met the teenagers living under the Oshodi Bridge when his car ran out of petrol and they helped him. It was then that the idea of the Oshodi Underbridge chess tournament began
BABATUNDE ONAKOYA

Nigerian chess champ lifts the lives of teenagers living under a bridge

Babatunde Onakoya’s actions are being compared with that of Robert Katende from the movie, ‘Queen of Katwe’, thanks to his nonprofit, Chess in Slums Africa

  • Gabriella Opara
8 min read