Ivory Coast’s Seko Fofana wins FRANCE 24-RFI award for best African player in Ligue 1
Fofana has played a vital role in RC Lens’s rise to prominence – reaching 7th place in Ligue 1 this season just two years after getting promoted.
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Angola’s Formigas basketball school: shaping kids for life
Hard-working like the ants they’re named after, Angola’s Formigas do Cazenga are a basketball team and school preparing inner-city kids in Luanda for a better life. One of their star players, Sara Caetano, has gone on to the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy in Lyon, France. Parker, a veteran NBA star, says he aims to find more players like Sara in Angola and beyond.
Lisbon: How African music is breaking down racial barriers
Presenter Eve Jackson meets award-winning Portuguese star Dino D'Santiago, who is forming a bridge between two continents. The singer's family come from one of Portugal's former colonies, Cape Verde. With five acclaimed albums, he uses his voice to bring African rhythms and culture to more people. Dino is a champion of Lisbon's new wave of Afro-electronic sounds, singing of a new Lisbon: a city that recognises and accepts its diverse social fabric.
Rwanda: Tackling the challenge of overpopulation
But for the people who live in the city, this has meant total upheaval, and in many cases forced demolition of their homes … which they must sometimes do themselves.
Ndidi, Ozo partner fanbants to make fantasy football reality in Africa
It’s no longer just about cheering for your team or rooting for your favourite player to score a match-winning goal. A good weekend watching football can now put you right at the center of the action. You can now be the manager of your very own team every match week.
The Camunga Symphony Orchestra - More than just a musical education
For the past decade, the Camunga Symphony Orchestra music school in Luanda has polished rough-cut diamonds of youth and changed their lives for the better.
Foreign student arrested in Russia on 'Nazism' charges for twerking at war memorial
A female student has been arrested in Russia for allegedly "rehabilitating Nazism" by twerking in front of a war memorial.