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The Comb Episodes

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    Mogadishu’s daughter

    Ready to run: Childhood, conflict, and the complicated journey to find peace

  2. Losing my language

    β€˜A linguistic famine’: Why are so many young Africans losing their mother tongue?

  3. Losing Grace

    Misinformation and miracle cures: The tragic cost of misinformation in cancer care

  4. Lives in limbo

    'Dadaab is a prison’: Making a life in Africa’s largest refugee camp

  5. Lesotho's murder mystery

    Murder in the mountains: the mysterious killing that unravelled Lesotho’s government

  6. Left behind

    Senegal’s missing men. What happens to communities left behind in the migrant crisis?

  7. Introducing The Comb

    Stories that matter to you. A new podcast for Africa, unpicking one story every week.

  8. In slavery’s shadow

    Enslaved by the past: How black Tunisians are trying to escape the legacy of slavery

  9. Identity is the key

    We all need a form of identification, but does it need to be digital?

  10. Home in a pandemic

    Is home a place or a feeling? Has the virus changed our sense of β€˜home’? #thecomb

  11. Hippo wars

    Lurking in the lake: What’s driving hippos to attack and kill fishermen on Lake Naivasha?

  12. Guest episode: On the Podium

    How a rower's victory became a symbol of hope in post-apartheid South Africa

  13. Guest episode: Dear Daughter

    β€˜Fly bird, fly’: An episode from the ΒιΆΉΙη’s β€˜Dear Daughter’ podcast with Namulanta Kombo

  14. Goodbye Nigeria

    β€˜The evil you have done is enough’: Why are so many young Nigerians leaving the country?

  15. Generation jobless

    Young, educated and broke: the reality of life as an unemployed graduate

  16. Forgetting your family

    Lost memories and strange behaviour: The burden of Alzheimer’s and dementia

  17. Finding Humanism

    A different kind of faith: Non-believers in Nigeria share their story

  18. Escaping the city

    β€˜Slow down and struggle less’: Why many are finding futures away from the city

  19. Equal before the law?

    The vendor who changed Malawi

  20. Epilepsy, not a curse

    Myths, misconceptions and superstition. Why is epilepsy still so misunderstood?

  21. Easing pain

    Confronting the realities of care for patients with the most severe illnesses

  22. Digital debt trap

    Is Kenya's hustler generation getting caught out by digital borrowing?

  23. Decolonising tourism

    β€˜There were no locals at all’: Reclaiming Kenya’s natural heritage

  24. Decoding our DNA

    African DNA is missing from most genetic studies and Sally’s illness is poorly understood

  25. Darfur: Seeking justice

    Does Sudan's new dawn finally mean a chance for justice?

  26. Confronting infertility: His story

    β€˜We tend to blame women’: The silence and shame that surrounds male infertility

  27. Confronting infertility: Her story

    Blame and heartache: The emotional and physical burden of being unable to conceive

  28. Confronting colourism

    β€œI was trapped in my own skin”: The illegal trade which preys on prejudice

  29. Coming up...

    We’re taking a break after last week’s 2-parter. Enjoy a preview of next week’s episode

  30. Climate of danger: My mother’s murder

    β€˜She was not going to keep quiet’: Killed for defending the environment

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