Ayòbámi Adébáyò was was in her early 20s when the bus she was travelling on from her job in an engineering institute took a detour to avoid rush-hour traffic in the Nigerian city of Ife. “We cruised through this neighbourhood that was really impoverished, where I hadn’t been before. I remember being astonished that it …
Nigeria elections 2023: The allegations against the presidential contenders By Nduka Orjinmo & Chiagozie Nwonwu – BBC News Africa
Image caption, Bola Tinubu (L), Peter Obi (C) and Atiku Abubakar (R) are frontrunners to become Nigeria's next president Nigerians voting for a new president next month will have 18 contenders to choose from but the three men seen as the leading candidates have been separately accused of trading in narcotics, money laundering and global tax …
Pelé Will Live Forever By José Miguel Wisnik
Pelé in 2014. Luiz Maximiano SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Pelé once confessed that he had long been troubled by a conundrum, one he’d only be able to crack when he met God, face-to-face, and could demand an explanation. What plagued him was a feeling of dual identity: There was “Pelé,” the world’s greatest living sports legend …
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‘I want to get off WhatsApp and call my friends instead’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023 by Annie Macmanus
Lately I’ve been feeling disconnected from my friends, which is strange, as I speak to them all the time. When I say “speak”, I mean we send messages to each other on WhatsApp. I hear their voices when they send voice notes. But mostly we type. WhatsApp is indisputably convenient. Free to use, intuitive, immediate …
I Brought My Mom Home To Help Her Die. I Had No Idea What I Was In For — Or What I’d Gain. By Courtenay Rudzinski
"All I knew was that she wasn’t going to take her final breath in a hospital." "It rained every single day, but that didn't stop us from doing anything," says the author of this 1988 trip to Boston with her mother. When my vibrant 89-year-old mom stopped eating, I didn’t think much of it. She’d …
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