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Choose a life
Start with a queen, poet, scientist, kingdom, or folktale that pulls your curiosity.
New chapter every Wednesday
Africa, told the way a grandmother would.
A free app for African history and storytelling: biographies of real lives and folktales from across the continent. Five minutes a day. Built with historians, narrated by native voices.
111Lives published
4Tales, new pillar
5minA day, on the bus
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Stories to read. Tales to discover across the continent.
Lives · Tales
111 lives. One library. Growing weekly.
Explore real stories from the live catalogue across 10 regions.
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1922-1979 / Angola
King Charles II & III
17th & 21st Century / Britain
Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
1956 - 2014 / Nigeria
Francisco Macías Nguema
1924 - 1979 / Central Africa - Equatorial Guinea
Ahmed Ben Bella
c. 1916 - 2012 / Algeria
Seretse Khama
1921 - 1980 / Botswana
Thutmose III
c. 1481 - 1425 BC / Ancient Egypt
Ramesses II
c. 1303 BC – 1213 BC / Ancient Egypt
African tales for short vertical watching.
Folktales, tricksters, animals, morals, and regional stories made for quick sessions in the app.
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Our dedicated app for African languages. Learn with real native speakers.
Language. People. Connection.
How it works.
Pick a life, follow the chapters, practice inside the story, and keep moving in short daily sessions.
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Read, listen, learn
Move through story chapters, narration, cultural context, and quick checks.
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Keep the thread
Save progress, return later, and build a map of the cultures and eras you have met.
Built for daily learning.
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Historical narratives
Stories shaped around real people, places, timelines, and consequences.
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Native voice narration
Narration belongs in the app, where it supports learning and progress.
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Stories in motion
Short videos bring African history and folktales to life.
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Quick quizzes
Short checks reinforce the chapter without turning the app into homework.
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Fresh catalogue
The library can grow with new lives, tales, and regions.
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Progress as a map
Your reading and practice history becomes a record of where you have been.
For families, classrooms, and the curious.
Blog and Press Releases.
Read blog
The Healer, the Poet and the State: Agostinho Neto Beyond the Monument
Agostinho Neto entered Angola’s history carrying a doctor’s training and a poet’s faith in freedom. He left it as the country’s first president—a liberation leader remembered for independence, education and a state that also learned to silence.
What the Earth Kept at Igbo-Ukwu: Bronze, Beads and a History That Refused to Be Small
When Isaiah Anozie opened the earth in 1938, he found metalwork, beads and ritual objects that forced historians to rethink early West African art. Igbo-Ukwu’s deeper story is not a vanished mystery, but a living community, skilled makers and a world of far-reaching exchange.
At Midnight, Angola Became Its Own: Why 11 November Is Independence Day
At midnight in Luanda, a flag rose over a country whose freedom had been fought for across farms, prisons, forests and exile. Angola’s Independence Day remembers 11 November 1975—but the date carries liberation, rivalry and a responsibility larger than any one movement.
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