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January 2025

  • Nonso Anozie as Elesin in Death and the King's Horseman at the National Theatre, London, in 2009.

    Death and the King’s Horseman: the return of Wole Soyinka’s enduring mystery

    The Nigerian Nobel laureate’s story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master’s death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal
  • A south Asian child writes in the Hanifi script on a blackboard

    From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

    With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them
  • New Year's Eve: from Auckland to London, the world welcomes 2025 – video


    Celebrations from around the world as people welcome in 2025

December 2024

  • People take photographs of themselves in front of a statue of Pharaoh Rameses II in the main hall of the museum

    Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

  • Iyake lake in southwestern Nigeria is believed to be one of two naturally suspended lakes in the world.

    Beaches, beer and a rare suspended lake … why can’t Nigeria attract more tourists?

  • Thelma Cabrera standing in a crop field of cane

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part two

  • A woman wearing a floral skirt over pink petticoats and boots with crampons uses ice axes to climb a steep snowy mountainside

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one

  • Single-use plastic will soon be banned in Nigeria – but is the country ready?

  • At least 35 children die in crowd crush at school fair in Nigeria – video

  • At least 35 children killed in crowd crush at school fair in Nigeria

  • It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria

    Nels Abbey
  • ‘This is incredible’: a new generation of music lovers discovers the 70s sounds of the Lijadu Sisters

  • Questions dog Trump pick for Middle East adviser with inconsistent résumé

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Kemi Badenoch criticised by Nigerian vice president for ‘denigrating’ his country – as it happened

November 2024

  • Boat pushing away from the shore in the Niger River

    At least 27 people dead and 100 missing after boat capsizes in Nigeria

  • An image of a man printed on a banana leaf held up in the hand of the Nigerian-Canadian artist Kosisochukwu Nnebe, who created it.

    ‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

  • Black Consciousness Day celebrations in Avenida Paulista, São Paulo.

    The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: How Brazil is celebrating its Black heritage

  • Anthony Odiong after his arrest in Florida on 16 July 2024.

    Catholic priest accused of sexual assault fathered children of victims, court hears

  • Miss Universe runner-up to move to Nigeria after South Africa nationality row

  • The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: Unearthing the real story of Black voters at the US election

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