SUDANESE BASKETBALL STAR DENG HEADS HOME

Luol Deng branded by BBC as the multi-millionaire face of the Chicago Bulls, and one of President Barack Obama's favourite basketball players, is heading back home to Sudan.The Team GB basketball team was last home 20 years ago, after he and his family fled the civil war in Southern Sudan.BBC reporter Tim Franks followed Luol Deng to Kenya to meet Sudanese refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp before

WOLE TO READ AFRICAN PLAYS ON BBC

Wole Soyinka will judge the 2010 BBC World Service African Drama competition.The highly respected Nigerian professor, writer, poet, playwright and Nobel Literature Laureate will be on the panel of judges at the BBC World Service’s 50th season of African radio drama BBC African performance launch. Listeners have until February 15, 2009 to enter their plays, which must be half an hour long when

KENYAN ACTORS STAR IN NEW BBC MOVIE WITH HOLLYWOOD STARS

A BBC Films was shot on location in Kenya two weekends ago and it predominately features the crème of Kenyan actors. The movie, The First Grader follows the life of the late 84-year-old Kimani Nganga Maruge who attempted to take advantage of a government initiative to give free elementary school education for all. Initially denied access to go the school with his fellow first graders, Maruge