I wrote about the Miss South Africa debacle and how the conversation around Chidimma has nothing to do with nationality #MissSouthAfrica bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨Personal news🚨So immensely proud and humbled that I have been chosen to be a fellow for the John Schofield Trust. I can't wait for a year of being mentored by a titan in the journalism industry!!

Parents beg US diplomat for apology over fatal crash bbc.in/4dhjBoL

For BBC News Africa I did my first explainer about the ongoing drama surrounding Miss South Africa and Chidimma Adetshina who had to pull out of the competition. Please watch here: youtu.be/hQigVlJc3iI?si…

This is a really interesting article from Danai Nesta Kupemba that might be useful for development economics. It's certainly one that gets you thinking. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

After a nationality row forced her to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen of a totally different country, as Miss Universe Nigeria. Watch here our video looking into the nationality row she faced: bbc.in/3MtwBvH

Tunisia is heaing to the elections and President Kais Saied has all but ensured his victory. Me for BBC News Africa bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“The petition was started to send a strong message that we will not tolerate the celebration of individuals with a history of violence against women, especially in a country like South Africa." bbc.com/news/articles/…

Tfw you’ve wanted to be a journalist since you were 12 so you go to school for it and work really hard and when you finally get to the point where you’ve hit your stride and don’t cry in the bathroom at work all the time the industry is in absolute shambles :)

I hope everyone who looks at a child and sees a wife dies

Everything I achieved as a 25-year-old journalist in 2024.

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, Congo, as fighters from the M23 rebel group took control of the city. The horrific incident occurred at Munzenze prison last Monday. bbc.in/411aaWK

If Issa Rae didn’t create a low budget web series with her friends, HBO would’ve never seen her talent enough to cut her a deal. Make your art. Put it out. Just do it.

Young Kenyan women are permanently closing the door on motherhood, by opting for sterilisation to ensure they never get pregnant. I spoke to the women defying societal norms and expectations for my latest feature for BBC News Africa bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

One Kenyan woman I spoke to for my feature said, the rise of "fascism and authoritarian regimes" in Africa and America pushed her to get her tubes tied because she feared in a few years her rights might be taken away. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"The government of this country is ruling a dictatorship while pretending that #Angola is a democratic country." I, too, was once denied entry to Angola. I guess I'm now in some good company. bbc.com/news/articles/… Danai Nesta Kupemba Alfred Lasteck

"Nigeria is very classist. Ironically, we're a poor country, so it's a bit silly," a radio host told the BBC. I explored Nigeria's class dynamics through the lens of IJGBs and posed the question: Are Nigerians abroad widening the class divide back home? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

He wanted the Mercedes. She was expected to pay. Dr Celiwe Ndaba’s story went viral and sparked a national conversation about financial abuse in South Africa. For my latest BBC News Africa piece I explored how successful women become targets. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We track down the man who put up the white crosses Trump claimed were a burial site for white South African farmers - and prove the US president wrong: @bbcnews story bbc.com/news/articles/…