Idi Amin was forced from power after one of the bloodiest rules in African history. Idi Amin was the third President of Uganda. He ruled for 8 years, and in that time, he created a legacy that almost everybody has a different opinion on. Amin started as a cook for the colonial King’s African Rifles, before rising through the ranks in the army and taking power from Milton Obote in a coup. Amin began his reign enjoying support from the West, but by 1977, the UK had severed dipl

GETTY IMAGES: Didier Drogba By 2005, Côte D’Ivoire was deep in civil war. The country was in its third year of domestic conflict between President Laurent Gbagbo and the rebel faction ‘New Forces of the Ivory Coast.’ By the end of the conflict in 2007, the highest estimates stated 4,000 had been killed, and over 750,000 had been displaced. Yet one of the most crucial factors in ending this conflict was Chelsea striker Didier Drogba……...   Drogba signed for Chelsea in 2004 for

I recently watched a YouTube video about a Nigerian man who moved to the coldest town in the world, Yakutsk, in the far reaches of Siberia. The temperature in Yakutia can reach as low as -71 degrees Celsius, yet Mark Oladipo Babtunde decided he wanted to call Yakutsk home after meeting his now wife and forming a tight knit group of friends. It made me think about the variety of African people spread across the world through migration, more specifically, which other unexpected

Inaccurate representation of Africa in Western media has led to non-African envisioning mud huts, hunting/violence or tribes when they picture the continent in their minds. The problematic issue of generalising the African continent is also tied to this issue, meaning that lots of areas of Africa are grouped within these stereotypes, and the media is also a strong factor in linking this phenomenon. Whether it's stereotypical depictions, generalisation or portraying inaccurate

Ivory Coast, the defending champions after lifting the 2023 Afcon trophy on home soil following their 2-1 win over Nigeria in the final The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) kicks off in a month’s time. The most prestigious tournament in African football has failed to provide no shortage of tactical brilliance and entertainment over its last few editions, and this year looks to be no different. The tournament will take place in Morocco after Guinea were stripped of hosting rights