African immigrant truckers find their American Dream on the open road
Increasing demand for long-haul truckers in the US is drawing more African immigrants onto America’s roads, where the hours are long but the money is good.
African Americans turn to DNA testing to reclaim their stolen ancestry
Enslaved people were banned from continuing their cultural practices and forced to learn English when they got to America but for their descendants DNA testing affirms ‘our story did not begin with slavery.’
Nigerien man says he found bodies of 3 US soldiers slain in Niger last month
Adamou Boubacar tells VOA’s French to Africa service that the bodies were bloodied and stripped of their uniforms.
Made of mud
Leaving an office job to make bogolan, a traditional Mali fabric design that’s painted with fermented mud.