He was a shining star of a tight-knit group of rising Black male models in London. Why did he die at the hands of another model?

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

On Amaka Osakwe and life as a woman in Lagos.

What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

The hopes, dreams and failures of Nigeria’s commercial capital.

On Nigeria’s citizen vigilantes who’ve banded together to fight Islamist terrorists.

In 1981, Mauritania became the last country on Earth to abolish slavery. The law had little effect; at least 140,000 people are still enslaved today. Their best hope for freedom is an abolitoinist named Biram Dah Abeid.