The spy who loved to dance

With the 2026 Winter Olympics well under way in Italy, we look to the most powerful woman in sport - the International Olympics Committee president, Kirsty Coventry. The most decorated African Olympian of all time, the 42-year-old mother-of-two made history as both the first Afri ...  Show more

Millions flock to Spain’s Sagrada Família to marvel at its towering tree-like columns, remarkable displays of light and ornate stonework. One hundred years after the master architect Antoni Gaudí’s death, Spanish journalist Lluís Amiguet explores why so many people, regardless of ...  Show more

Werewere-Liking Gnepo, actrice, romancière, écrivaine, est née en 1950 à Bondè, au Cameroun. Elle a été élevée par ses grands-parents paternels dans un milieu traditionnel. Elle vit en Côte d'Ivoire depuis 1978, époque à laquelle elle se lance dans des recherches en traditions et ...  Show more

Werewere-Liking Gnepo, actrice, romancière, écrivaine, est née en 1950 à Bondè, au Cameroun. Elle a été élevée par ses grands-parents paternels dans un milieu traditionnel. Elle vit en Côte d'Ivoire depuis 1978, époque à laquelle elle se lance dans des recherches en traditions et ...  Show more

Sylva Nasrallah is an Armenian Lebanese fashion designer and co-founder of NAGADA.After studying fashion in Paris, she moved to Cairo in the late 1980s with her husband. In 1993, she joined her late partner Michel Pastore who by that time had finished working with traditional wea ...  Show more

Yatu Widders-Hunt has always been a storyteller. A descendant of the Anaiwan & Dunghutti tribes, she was a freelance journalist before becoming a communications consultant, specialising in Indigenous policy and research. But Yatu also loves fashion. In 2017, she set up her own In ...  Show more