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The Man of the Day

Mario Van Peebles: The Son of the Fire

How the heir to Black independent cinema’s founding revolution turned an act of cultural insurgency into a durable business model — and why Paris is about to crown him Some...
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The Long Repayment: Denzel Washington and the Discipline of Giving

Two Academy Awards, a Tony, four decades on screen. And, running quietly underneath all of it, a fifty-year debt that one man has spent his adult life paying back in...
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Twenty-Eight Years at the Door

How Imane Ayissi — dancer, model, self-taught couturier — became the first sub-Saharan African on the calendar of Paris haute couture, and why he is still the only one I....
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Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle: the 20-year-old The Battle of de Gaulle pulls back into history

Among the choices that explain the critical success of the French diptych La Bataille de Gaulle — which, with more than 5 million combined admissions, became the surprise box-office triumph...
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The Star and the Refusal

Angélique Kidjo, from Ouidah to Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, August 18, 2026 It took forty-three years to travel from a stage in Cotonou to a stretch of pavement on Hollywood...
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The Rule That Moved the Chair

Trajectories — Portrait No. 14, and last Nigeria’s central bank caps non-executive tenure at twelve years, expressly to stop founders entrenching themselves atop the institutions they built. In 2026 the...
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The Passport He Took in 1987

Trajectories — Portrait No. 13 A career built abroad is portable until the day it has to come home. Tidjane Thiam became the first Black chief executive of a FTSE...
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The Man Without a Birthday

Trajectories — Portrait No. 11 A founder’s biography is not a legal defence, and a legal file is not a verdict. Mohed Altrad does not know what day he was...
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No Control Premium

Trajectories — Portrait No. 10 At end-June 2025, Nedbank carried its 21.2% of Ecobank Transnational at R1.8bn against a market value of R1.9bn. It sold the block four months later...
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The Clause Nobody Else Writes

Trajectories — Portrait No. 9 Africa holds roughly 15% of the world’s people and attracts about 1% of global venture funding. Within that 1%, four anglophone markets — Nigeria, Kenya,...
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The Pity Product

Trajectories — Portrait No. 8 In 2013, Fast Company appended an editor’s note to its profile of Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu. It removed a claim that soleRebels was the world’s only...
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Removed Twice by the Same Regulator

Trajectories — Portrait No. 7 A tenure cap moves a person. It does not necessarily move power. On 21 August, Nigeria’s twelve-year limit on non-executive directors ends Tony Elumelu’s chairmanship...
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Where the Rules Get Written

Trajectories — Portrait No. 6 Every Cameroonian exporter who negotiates a letter of credit, writes “FOB Douala” into a contract, or signs an arbitration clause is applying rules drafted by...
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Three Years of Web Design

Trajectories — Portrait No. 5 Africa’s largest technology exit is usually reported as $682m. The figure adds a payment that was made to one that may never be, and excludes...
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