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Football · Journey
Marie-Antoinette Katoto
The striker returns to the Parc in a different shirt. Her challenge: finding continuity in a fiercely contested attack.
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in 2026?
Katoto settles in Lyon. Diani discovers the English game. Elsa Majimbo chooses other creative formats.
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Football · New league
Kadidiatou Diani
Having left for England at 31, she is helping build the play of a club looking to shake up the WSL.
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Chess · Culture
Elsa Majimbo
Her audience discovered her through very short videos. She now says she wants to devote time to filmmaking.
Read her storyThe opening portrait · Morocco
Houda Ait Lahcen,
from skateboarding to building sites.
She has joined the apprentices of Mirleft. A detour into construction, in a daily life already shaped by workshops and sessions with children.
Step into Houda's storyA Moroccan skateboarder at Southbank, London · May 2026.
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Four ways
to find adventure.
A surfer looks for funding for her lessons. A project manager keeps skateboarding moving. A guide trains in first aid. An artist turns her training into challenges.
Sierra Leone · Surfing
KK Kamara
A club, lessons and a school project on the Sierra Leonean coast.
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Ghana · Skateboarding
Harmonie Bataka
The tours and the places that keep a local scene going.
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Kenya · Mountain expeditions
Wandia Maina
An organiser who had to train in mountain rescue.
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United Kingdom · Nigerian diaspora · Acrobatic roller skating
Tinuke Oyediran
The circus and dance behind her timed performances.
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