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I witnessed schools get destroyed, now I build them

Mohamed Papa Bangura struggled to get an education during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

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Bagpipe fever: One Nigerian's unlikely musical mission

How a teenage dream turned into a national revival

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The celebrity DJ who fought addiction to feel music again

DJ Fat Tony dominated the club scene but when the Aids crisis hit, his world imploded

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Finding a life in the sunshine: Being Roy Ayers鈥� son

Nabil Ayers unearthed an unexpected family history through his famous father Roy Ayers

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Disco and drama: The story of Ride on Time

Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit

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鈥楽old鈥� for a pint of whiskey: Lonnie Holley鈥檚 mythical life, part 1

Raised in a bar in Jim Crow-era Alabama, the artist has experienced beauty and brutality

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鈥楽old鈥� for a pint of whiskey: Lonnie Holley鈥檚 mythical life, part 2

Lonnie begins to rebuild; but it takes friends and family to tell him he鈥檚 an artist

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Folklore, music and me: my chart-topping lullabies

Hafd铆s Huld's lullabies captivated Iceland and made music history

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Hidden kingdom: My battle to save the world鈥檚 largest cave

When Vietnam鈥檚 spectacular Son Doong cave came under threat, Huong Le knew she had to act

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Exposing Nxivm: Bringing down a destructive cult, part 1

How actor Catherine Oxenberg rescued her daughter India from the dangerous cult, Nxivm

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Exposing Nxivm: Bringing down a destructive cult, part 2

Catherine and India Oxenberg face Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere in court

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'A dream is a dream': the man who refused to give up

Solomon Lefakane longed to become a doctor, but apartheid South Africa tried to stop him

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"We are not trash!" A daughter鈥檚 fight to bury her mother

Morgan Harris is one of four indigenous women whose remains are thought to be in landfill

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Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went to find her

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My brilliant dad: how dementia deepened our bond

Sandeep Jauhar learned everything he could about Alzheimer's to be a better carer

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Bombs, Berlioz and a Baghdad hit list

Mais Al-Bayaa wanted to be a French academic but the Iraq war led her to journalism

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Our community struck oil; then the murders began

Jim Gray on the mysterious murder plot that targeted his Osage Nation ancestors

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Shot out of the sky: My photo exposed a US political scandal

Lou Dematteis' photo was a catalyst in the unravelling of a CIA cover-up

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Me, OCD and the baby bird in my hair

How nursing an abandoned finch helped Hannah Bourne-Taylor through a mental health crisis

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The trailblazing nurse who began life in care

Starting life in care, Elizabeth Anionwu is Britain's first sickle cell nurse specialist

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The Mexican family band and the magic of the wooden monster

The Gama brothers鈥� lives changed when their dad brought a huge marimba through the door

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I saved chimpanzees and they've saved me

Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimps helped him through war and loneliness

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Sabira Merchant: A life lived head on

Sabira Merchant has been at the centre of Mumbai culture for 80 years

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'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation

Jeanne's family opposed her romance with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him

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A boy called Love: From street dance to world-class ballet

At 15 Love Kotiya first saw ballet through the window of a Delhi dance studio

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The US border guard who fought his own deportation

After refusing entry to thousands of people, Raul Rodriguez found himself in their shoes

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Secret studies, glass beads and a beautiful brain scan

The Afghan scientist who fought to go to university after seeing an MRI scan

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Batonga! How a made-up word guided Ang茅lique Kidjo鈥檚 life

Benin鈥檚 multi Grammy-winning diva on her fight for musical freedom and justice for women

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The Nigerian farmer who sued an oil giant

Eric Barizaa Dooh took Shell to court over pollution in a case that stunned the world

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Who is that kneeling man in the photograph?

My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King鈥檚 assassination

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