In this episode, Zeinab Badawi travels to Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire to find out about the Asante people and their kingdom. We examine the history, myths and legends of the Asante people. We attend the Akwasidae, a colourful festival where the King of the kings of the Asante - known as the Asantehene - has his gold regalia on full display as a way of projecting wealth and prestige. And we hear about the great Asante queen who led the resistance against the invading British and hid the Asante’s most valued and sacred possession: the Golden Stool. The Asante serve as an example of how despite decades of colonial rule, Africans maintained their traditions and continue to revel in and perpetuate their heritage and customs.

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In February 1952, Princess Elizabeth was enjoying a short break in Kenya with Prince Philip, her husband of five years. It was a brief respite from their royal duties.
And it was here on 6 February, that the princess became Queen, after George VI passed away in his sleep.
Now Queen Elizabeth II is the UK's longest-reining monarch.

Former Burundian intelligence agents say that the country’s security services are running secret torture and detention sites to silence dissent. Using cutting edge reconstruction techniques BBC Africa Eye examines one house in particular, which was filmed in a video posted on social media in 2016. A red liquid, which looked like blood, was seen pouring from its gutter. We ask if Burundi’s repression of opponents has now gone underground? The government has always denied any human rights violations, and declined to comment for this report.

A BBC Africa Eye investigation - produced and directed by Charlotte Attwood and Maud Jullien.
Edited by Suzanne Vanhooymissen
Spatial reconstruction and Situated Testimony: Forensic Architecture
Motion Graphics: Tom Flannery

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Alongside the vast gold fields of Ghana are thousands of illegal mines or galamsey, where unskilled miners dream of hitting the big time. These mines rely mainly on children who abandon an education in an attempt to support their families.

Galamsey is a dangerous game – can anyone get rich quick? BBC Africa Eye investigates.

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Oliver Mutukudzi with a song called Kupokana - a warning to be careful about the words that come out of your mouth.

As the BBC's Connected Africa Day focuses on Africa's new broadband connectivity, Network Africa sessions step in to provide you with the opportunity to really test the new technology by watching the great Zimbabwean singer and guitarist, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi performing two tracks live in our Bush House studios.

These are images Sudan’s government does not want you to see: teams of masked, plainclothes agents chasing down protesters, beating them, and dragging them off to secret detention centres in Khartoum.

Who are these hit squads? Where are these detention centres? And what happens inside their walls?

BBC Africa Eye has analysed dozens of dramatic videos filmed during the recent uprising, and spoken with witnesses who have survived torture at the hands of the Bashir regime. Some of these protesters tell us about a secret and widely feared holding facility – The Fridge – where the cold is used an instrument of torture.

Investigation led by:
Benjamin Strick
Abdulmoniem Suleiman
Klaas Van Dijken
Aliaume Leroy

Produced and Edited by:
Suzanne Vanhooymissen
Tom Flannery
Daniel Adamson

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Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas - yet about half of the country’s population has no access to electricity, and those that do face daily power cuts that can last for hours on end.

Meet the men and women on the front line of Nigeria’s energy crisis as they battle public anger and a decaying infrastructure in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil hub.

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Through a tradition called "money marriage", some young girls are used as currency in a type of modern slavery among the Becheve people in southern Nigeria. Children are sold to men as old as 90 to settle debts or as a form of payment. BBC Africa hears from the girls themselves, an elderly husband and the man fighting against the custom.

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When Tosin Oshinowo left for the UK, she had one goal in mind - to become one of Nigeria's most successful architects, in a profession historically dominated by men.

Today, she's not only smashed that glass ceiling, she's made her name for works which celebrate African beauty. Let's Check Her Out!

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Growing up, Wendy Okolo always dreamed of being an engineer, and she worked HARD to make that dream a reality.

Today she is an aerospace engineer at the at the Intelligent Systems Division, NASA. Yes, that NASA.

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As the number of coronavirus cases in Kenya rise, citizens have been advised to stay at home in isolation.

The country began a 19:00 to 05:00 curfew on Friday.

Informal employment contributes 83% of all jobs in Kenya, with those workers particularly vulnerable, living from pay cheque to pay cheque.

BBC Africa spoke to Esther, a domestic worker in the capital Nairobi.

Video producers: Anne Okumu, Njoroge Muigai and Priscilla Ng’ethe.

#stayhome #stayhomestaysafe #coronavirus #covid19

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Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson was considered Africa's main candidate for Pope.

In his country, however, many believe that Catholicism is under threat from the growing appeal of Pentecostal churches.

BBC Africa's Akwasi Sarpong sent this report from Accra.

BP agreed to pay around $10bn (£8bn) to a businessman involved in a suspicious energy deal.

The energy giant bought Frank Timis' stake in a gas field off the coast of Senegal for $250 million in 2017.

But documents obtained by BBC Panorama and Africa Eye reveal that BP was also projected to pay his company between $9bn and $12bn in royalties.

Both BP and Mr Timis deny any wrongdoing. Read the full statement from Mr Timis here: https://bbc.in/2NOQP4j

Update 9 July 2019: BP did not dispute the $10 billion figure prior to publication, but has subsequently said it is wholly inaccurate and exaggerated.

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In 2017 this troupe of Ghanaian pallbearers went viral following BBC Africa's coverage of their flamboyant coffin-carrying dances, garnering millions of views.

Three years later and the group has experienced a second round of internet fame, with social media users adopting the troupe as a dark-humoured symbol of death in the time of Covid-19.

BBC Africa's Sulley Lansah met up with the leader of the troupe to get his reaction to his new-found fame, and to see how he's coping during the pandemic.

Edited by Faith Ilevbare and Marko Zoric

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In this episode Zeinab Badawi focuses on the fall of the kingdom of Aksum and how the Christian kings who followed in the wake of its demise left powerful legacies especially that of King Lalibela who ruled in the 12/13th century. He is credited with building a complex of rock hewn churches which represent amazing feats of engineering at that time.

Zeinab also charts the arrival of Islam in this part of Africa and how the Christian kings and Muslim emirs co-existed. And she visits Harar, the most holy of Ethiopia’s cities for Muslims, where she observes the bizarre long-standing tradition of the ‘hyena men’ of Harar who feed these wild animals by hand.

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Seun Kuti on his dad Fela Kuti, afrobeat and african art... with BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche. FULL INTERVIEW

Former Senegal midfielder had to spend 10 days sleeping rough under a stadium while awaiting his trial with his first club.
The ex-Liverpool and Stoke player now runs his own academy which trains Senegalese children in football, but only if they stay in school.He's been talking to BBC Africa as part of the Where Are They Now? series, looking at ex-Premier League players from Africa.

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As the African Union prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary the BBC's Peter Okwoche asks his colleagues at the BBC Africa what Pan-Africanism means to them.

Naomi Campbell says she was rejected from a recent campaign because of her "skin colour".

The British supermodel was speaking in Lagos, Nigeria, where she is attending the Arise Fashion week, an event that showcases diversity and the best fashion designers from across Africa.

She told the BBC's Mayeni Jones that she was baffled when her picture wasn't used, given her family 'genes'.

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Zambia's Mizinga Melu, CEO of Barclays Africa Regional Management in Johannesburg, shares her five lessons for life.

Part of the BBC's new series Power Women, profiling some of Africa's top female CEOs and managing directors.

Watch the full interview: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37951029

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The coronavirus is not only a public health emergency. It also poses a major threat to the world’s economy. It’s already caused global stock markets to crash, raising fears of a recession.

BBC Money Daily's Maya Hayakawa explains how the virus might affect African countries' economies.

Produced by Anthony Irungu and Hugo Williams. Illustrations by Millicent Wachira.

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Kenyans and Nigerians have been engaged in a Twitter battle following reports that Kenya's national football team the Harambee Stars had been denied a proper training ground. The Kenyans also complained about their hotel accommodation. The Nigerian Super Eagles are the reigning African champions.

Sierra Leone was one of the hardest hit countries when the Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014. Now it is battling the coronavirus. The first case was confirmed on the 31 of March and since then the numbers have been climbing steadily.

Tyson Conteh is a filmmaker in Makeni, a city in northern Sierra Leone. He covered the Ebola outbreak for BBC Africa Eye in the documentary Standing Among The Living and now he is making a series of video diaries for BBC Africa showing how his city is dealing with the coronavirus. In the first episode he looks at how this pandemic is again changing the way Sierra Leoneans behave and interact with one another.

Directed by Tyson Conteh and Video by Chernor Mustapha Thoronka (Justice), Future View Media Centre in Makeni.
Produced and edited by Jerry Rothwell and Sam Liebmann, Metfilm Production.

Music produced by Purple Field Productions PFP.

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Warning: contains scenes of drug use.

A heroin-based drug cocktail called nyaope is destroying young lives in South Africa’s townships.

Our reporter Golden Mtika finds an old family friend, Jesus, addicted to the drug and scavenging in an open sewer.

While Jesus goes into rehab, Golden goes in search of the dealers who bribe the police and push the drug. But will Jesus get clean?

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In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to the country of her birth and the very region of her forefathers and mothers: northern Sudan where she sheds light on this little-known aspect of ancient African history, the great Kingdom of Kush.

Its kings ruled for many hundreds of years and indeed in the eighth century BC they conquered and governed Egypt for the best part of 100 years. Furthermore, Kush was an African superpower. Its influence extended to the modern day Middle East.

Zeinab visits the best preserved of Sudan’s one thousand pyramids and shows how some of the ancient customs of Kush have endured to this day.

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Six months into her pregnancy, Linda Nderitu experienced blood loss caused by perinatal depression. Now she’s speaking out about the mental illness, with the hope of helping other women who are facing the same struggle.

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An underworld of quack doctors and conmen have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic and making money selling fake coronavirus cures. Investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas goes undercover in Ghana, exposing a Covid-19 scam said to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

WHO estimates 100,000 people die as a consequence of fake clinical and herbal medicines every year in Africa. Posing as the brother of a man infected with the deadly coronavirus, Anas sets out to find so-called cures, to expose the men who sell them, and to test the liquids for potentially dangerous and toxic ingredients.

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Shewa Hagos and her sons changed their sandwich shop into a traditional Eritrean cafe in 2014.

Within a few months, the Blue Nile had become London's best restaurant on the review site TripAdvisor.

BBC's Africa's Peter Okwoche went to test his taste buds.

Snails are eaten in large quantities in parts of West Africa where they are considered a delicacy, but most people in Eastern and Southern Africa do not eat snails.

Now, one entrepreneur is raising snails in Kenya. It is the only snail farm in East Africa, as Ruth Nesoba reports.

Inflenced by Fela Kuti and Jimi Hendrix, Nigerian-born and New York based 'Blu-funk' musician, Keziah Jones performed a Network Africa session in studio S6 at Bush house.

"Lagos vs New York" is from his five track Nigerian Funk EP which comes in advance of the release of his fifth album, Nigerian Wood, due out in the autumn.

Described as "an album of pride and love" Keziah's new material seeks to represent Nigeria in a more contemporary cultural context with this track drawing parallels between his two favourite cities.

What does strongman Iron Biby eat for breakfast? What's his advice on getting more ripped? He shares his tips with BBC Sport Africa.

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We met up with Arsenal and Nigeria footballer Alex Iwobi when he returned to Lagos to visit a football academy. He met up with some of the young players who look up to him as an inspiration.

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Silas Adekunle’s quest to make robotics more exciting made him create the world's first intelligent gaming robot.

He is also on a mission to ensure the inclusion of robotics in primary and secondary school curricula in Africa.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

The BBC's Africa Editor Fergal Keane looks at what went wrong.

Producers: Charlotte Pamment and Piers Scholfield
Graphics: Ian Paul Joyce

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Uganda's pop star MP Bobi Wine speaks exclusively to BBC Swahili's Zuhura Yunus in the US, where he has been receiving medical treatment.

The military denies his allegation that he was assaulted in their custody.

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On 15 January, 21 people were killed in an attack on a luxury hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

The Riverside attack lasted 19 hours. But what exactly happened during that time?

Using 3D reconstructions, as well as new accounts from survivors, BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo presents the most detailed picture yet of how the events of that day unfolded, from the start of the attack, to the swift and coordinated security response that saved hundreds of lives.

Video produced by George Wafula, Anthony Irungu, Ben Allen, Anthony Makokha, Hugo Williams, Millicent Wachira, Njoroge Muigai, Gloria Achieng, Ashley Lime and Muthoni Muchiri.

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Pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dances. Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style.

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Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly coronavirus in Mathare, one of Kenya's poorest settlements.

As the pandemic looms, heavy-handed policing leads to violence and a series of tragic deaths.

Reporting from Mathare’s coronavirus frontline, local journalist Elijah Kanyi asks: is the cure deadlier than the virus?

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Ivory Coast's cultural capital, Abidjan is famous for its thriving music scene thanks to bands such as Alpha Blondy, Tiken Jah Fakoly or reggae artist Kajeem.

When the Africa Kicks bus rolled into town, the BBC asked Kajeem to record a special Network Africa video session.

He performs 'Demain C'est Aujourd'hui' with Adama Diabaté on guitar and Nadege Kablan on backing vocals.

Sudan is in a political crisis after a tumultuous month in the capital, Khartoum, in which pro-democracy campaigners were shot dead on the streets.

Negotiations had been taking place between the protestors and the military over who would take control following the ousting of long-time President Omar al-Bashir.

But talks ended when a military crackdown on 3 June left dozens of protesters dead.

BBC's Mohanad Hashim, a Sudanese journalist, explains his fears for the immediate future of his country.

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On June 3, 2019, there was a massacre on the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. This is the story of that massacre, told through the phone cameras of those who kept filming, even as they came under live fire.

BBC Africa Eye has now analysed more than 300 videos shot in Khartoum on June 3rd. Using these videos, we can bring you a shocking, street-level view of the violence that was inflicted on protesters that morning - and the first direct testimony from men who say they took part in this attack.

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يمكن مشاهدة هذا الفيلم الوثائقي باللغة العربية هنا:
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Sierra Leone was one of the hardest hit countries when the Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014. Now it is battling the coronavirus. The first case was confirmed on the 31 of March and since then the numbers have been climbing steadily. Tyson Conteh is a filmmaker in Makeni, a city in northern Sierra Leone. He covered the Ebola outbreak for BBC Africa Eye in the documentary Standing Among The Living and now he is making a series of video diaries for BBC Africa Eye showing how his city is dealing with the coronavirus.

In the second episode Tyson looks at the tougher measures introduced by the government to try combat the spread of the coronavirus, including restricting the movement of people between districts which has had a big impact on his personal life.

Credits:
Directed by Tyson Conteh and Video by Chernor Mustapha Thoronka (Justice), The Future View Media Centre in Makeni.
Produced and edited by Jerry Rothwell and Sam Liebmann, Metfilm Production.
Music produced by Purple Field Productions PFP.


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Africa Beats seeks out the most innovative and interesting up and coming musicians from the continent, and Aziza Brahim was chosen because of her beautiful fusing of traditional Saharawi vocal style.

Dimakatso Nono Sekhoto left her job in finance to work as a farmer in South Africa. Watch her 5 tips for young farmers.
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Former Zimbabwe footballer Peter Ndlovu has said he would be prepared to give his national shirt to President Robert Mugabe.
The former Coventry City striker was the first black African player to play in the English Premier League.

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The Dahomey mothers or Amazons were a group of elite all-female soldiers, who were trained to kill and protect the Kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin. They started by protecting the king, but would go on to fight against the French.

They are the fourth story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.

Illustrations: Manuella Bonomi
Producer and editor: Kat Hawkins

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Farah Khaleck from Kenya has scleroderma, an autoimmune disease which causes hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues.

She spoke to us about what it's like living with the rare and incurable condition, and says she wants to inspire young people to love and embrace themselves.

Video journalists: Anne Okumu and Anthony Irungu.

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You'll know her from Sauti Sol and Nyashinski's "Short n Sweet". Aggie the Dance Queen has made a name for herself, and we caught up with her in her dance studio to talk about her fame, her future plans, and THAT outfit.

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Nikky Okyere, who came to the UK from Ghana, has become the go-to barber for English Premier League footballers from Africa, like Crystal Palace FC's Bakery Sako and Wilfried Zaha. Describing himself as a 'hair therapist', some of his other clients include Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Jordon Ibe, Asamoah Gyan, Christian Atsu, Mario Balotelli, Christian Benteke, and Danny Welbeck. Apart from running his own barbershop in Camberwell, south London, he also does home visits to some of his more famous customers.

Dirt is a common craving in many parts of Africa - especially amongst pregnant women who need the nutrients contained within the soil. In Tanzania the special clay soil is known as "udongo wa pemba", Swahili for "The Soil of Pemba". Focus on Africa's Tulanana Bohela travelled specially to the hills of Morogoro to find out what dirt really tastes like...but her journey begins in a famous market in Dar Es Salaam.

In our series of films looking at the topic of modern masculinity in Africa, the first issue we go into is suicide amongst Kenyan men.

Filmed, produced and directed by: Peter Murimi
Producer: Toni Kamau
Edited by: Sam Soko

We went to Nyandarua County located in Central Kenya where 70 people – almost all of them men - killed themselves last year.

BBC Africa Eye's Peter Murimi investigates why this is happening.

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Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba made one of the best received African albums of 2009. "I Speak Fula", released in September followed the hugely successful 2007 Segu Blue album.

Through his music, Bassekou and his band have breathed new life into Ngoni playing.

The traditional string instrument made of wood or calabash with animal skin stretched across it was always played sitting down on stage.

Bassekou and his band changed that, strapping the Ngonis over their shoulders like guitars and bringing the instruments to the front of the stage.

Bassekou and Ngoni Ba headlined on Friday night at the Festival of the Desert.

We made contact with him on Saturday and he invited us to come to where he and his band were staying in Timbuktu to film an unplugged performance in the more traditional style.

Again, we found ourselves racing the setting sun, trying to get the performance recorded before the light failed us.

We borrowed his neighbour's rooftop and Bassekou Kouyate, his wife Amy Sacko, Calabash player Alou Coulibaly and Ngoni bassplayer Moussa Bah performed this beautiful version of "Jonkoloni" from the album Segu Blue.

A TV science and maths quiz show where schools are pitted against each other has had Ghanaians hooked for years. We followed one contestant on his journey of persistence and preparation, in the pursuit of victory.

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Controversial Senegal football legend El Hadji Diouf says he's fitter than ever and enjoying life away from the pitch, advising the president on how to bring through the next generation of sport stars.

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Many African countries experience violence and intimidation fuelled by tribalism. But Tanzania seems to be an exception. Despite having more than 100 ethnic groups and bordering eight countries, it has succeeded in overcoming tribal tensions in a region where some neighbours have failed to do so. The BBC's Tulanana Bohela reports from Dar Es Salaam.

The inspirational story of Patson Daka, the 19-year-old football sensation from Zambia, who plays for Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg.

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Water births at home are a rare occurrence in Kenya.

However, Shiko Nguru and Rama Oluoch shared their birthing experience on YouTube and attracted a lot of attention as viewers marvelled at how easy they made it seem.

The couple explain how hypnobirthing classes helped them stay calm through the process, even when they had to deliver the baby without a midwife.

Video journalists: Gloria Achieng and Sheila Kimani.

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Yaa Asantewaa was a Ghanaian warrior queen, born around 1840, who rose up to lead an army against the invading British.

She is the first story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.

Producer and editor: Kat Hawkins
Illustrations: Manuella Bonomi

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Squadron Leader Angeline Bosha became Zimbabwe's first female jet fighter pilot in 2018. In a profession that is male-dominated, flight lieutenant Bosha is championing for the cause for female representation in the airforce while encouraging and inspiring younger women to pursue their dreams.

Video by Sally Boyani and Anne Okumu for BBC Africa's #TheSheWord.

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