That's all from BBC Africa Live this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.

A reminder of today's wise words:

And we leave you with this photo from the Lagos Fashion and Design Week, which aims to support and promote the Nigerian and African fashion industry. It's one of our favourite shots this week.

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Houston Rockets basketballer Luc Mbah a Moute says he grew up as a son of a village chief in Cameroon, but tells BBC Sportsworld: "I never had a crown though".

He shares here what it meant to him to fulfill his childhood dream of playing in the NBA:

Moute was part of the Rockets team that beat reigning NBA champions the Golden State Warriors on the opening day of the season.

He also helps to find the next crop of African talent through training camps back home.

Ugandan Afrobeats star turned politician Bobi Wine is the latest opposition figure to return $8,000 (£6,100) - a sum given to all 429 MPs to help them to consult their constituents on the controversial age-limit bill.

The bill is a push by the governing NRM party to scrap the upper presidential age limit, which currently stands at 75.

It is seen as part of a plan to allow President Yoweri Museveni, 73, to run for a sixth term of office in 2021.

Wine said in a Facebook post that he had instructed his bank to "return this money to its sender."

He shared the letter on Twitter:

He said that the money was being spent "on a matter that does not need any consultation whatsoever."

He added that it was "unfortunate" that the money was being given to lawmakers when "state prosecutors, judicial officers, doctors, teachers and other public officers are on strike or threatening to strike over poor working conditions".

We reported on Wednesday that eight opposition MPs had returned the money.

As we reported earlier, Burundi has become the first member state to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) a year after it lodged its notice of withdrawal.

The country's ambassador to the UK, Ernest Ndabashinze, told BBC Focus on Africa that Burundi was protecting its sovereignty:

Listen to the full interview:

He is usually is the one behind the camera, but this self-portrait of Bayo Omoboriowo has caught the attention of Instagram users as he poses for a striking shot flanked by two Turkish presidential guards.

Omoboriowo is the official photographer of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari.

He took this photo during the president's visit to Turkey last week but shared it today:

The 30-year-old Nigerian has been at the job for two years.

Afrobeats star Fuse ODG has joined the chorus of people criticising cosmetics giant Nivea for marketing skin-lightening creams to West Africa.

The British-Ghanaian artist told the BBC: "To me, it's definitely inciting ethnic and racial hate."

In recent days, Nivea has taken down some of its controversial adverts promoting the products.

It followed a statement issued by parent company Beiersdorf last week which read:

Stanley Kwenda
BBC Africa

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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic says Andre Ayew is a big mentality player who can help lift both his struggling Premier League side and the Ghana national team.

Ayew led his West Ham side to an unlikely win against Tottenham in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night scoring two quick-fire goals that sparked West Ham’s revival to a 3-2 win.

Praising Ayew's performance, his manager Bilic said, “he was the game changer. He’s got that [knack] for goals. He’s always in a good position at the right time”.

Bilic told BBC Africa that Ayew’s performance proves he was worth the large transfer fee from Swansea - where he scored 15 goals in his first season in the Premier League. He added:

The Croatian will now be hoping Ayew carries on with this form to help his side in the Premier League.

Ayew will be looking forward to leading his team in tomorrow’s Premier League match against Crystal Palace hoping to increase his goal tally. So far he has only found the net twice in the league.

The chairman of the Kenya's electoral commission, Wafula Chebukati, has further delayed the postponed vote in the four western counties which had been due to be held tomorrow.

Those areas were Migori, Siaya, Kisumu and Homa Bay.

They were postponed because of violent clashes in the region, as people in the opposition stronghold rejected attempts to organise the poll.

In a statement, Mr Chebukati said the commission had taken the decison to protect the lives of its staff:

"However, when it comes to our staff.... when their lives are in danger, as a commission we are deeply concerned. And because of all these factors, the commission has deliberated... and has postponed the election scheduled to take place tomorrow Saturday to a further date to be announced..."

Three Chadian soldiers serving in the UN mission in Mali known as Minusma were killed on Thursday when their vehicle drove over a mine.

There are currently more than 12,000 UN soldiers and police in the north of Mali, fighting Tuareg separatists and various Islamist militant groups, some affiliated with al-Qaeda.

More than 80 blue helmets have been killed there since the mission began in July 2013, making Minusma the deadliest UN peacekeeping mission since Somalia in the mid-nineties.

BBC Afrique’s Lamine Konkobo tells BBC Minute about the background to the ongoing conflict.

John Macrobert started Mukushi Seeds four years ago to provide farmers with a variety of hybrid seeds.

Based in northern Zimbabwe the company produces maize seeds, sugar beans, groundnuts, sorghum and millet.

It is sells its produce to several African countries in a market dominated by big multinational companies.

Watch his story:

More highlights from Africa Business Report

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The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has told Democratic Republic of Congo it must hold its delayed elections in 2018.

Ms Haley warned that US support for the country was at stake if this was not adhered to:

"Elections must be held in 2018, (otherwise) the DRC should not count on the support of the United States and the international community," the AFP news agency reports her as saying.

She made the comments after meeting Corneille Nangaa, head of the National Electoral Commission.

Elections were originally scheduled for November 2016 – but the NEC cancelled the polls citing logistical and financial difficulties.

It said that among other security concerns the continuing unrest in the central Kasai region was making it difficult to register voters.

The commision said two weeks ago that the earliest date it could organise the poll was April 2019.

Opposition protests have been held across the country against the perceived extension of President Joseph Kabila's rule.

Mr Kabila was to set to step down in December 2016 but in a deal brokered by the Catholic church it was agreed he would leave office at the end of 2017.

Ms Haley - who arrived in the country on Wednesday - also met the religious leaders who mediated the 2016 deal.

She urged them to "get involved" in ending the deadlock.

The ambassador also visited a displaced people's camp at Kitchanga in the eastern region of the country.

She is scheduled to leave the country later on Friday.

It is the first trip to Africa for Ms Haley, who is the most senior Trump administration official to visit the continent.

She has also visited South Sudan and Ethiopia.

We have just come across this feature by the new site Buzzfeed, external on Women's wrestling in Senegal.

The sport itself is relatively new to the international circuit and only debuted as a Olympic discipline in 2004 - a century after men had started competing in this sport.

In the southern Senegalese region of Casamance however, the tradition of female wrestlers can be traced back thousands of years and feeds from a heritage across large parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

"Wrestling is how we prove womanhood", explains 67-year-old wrestling retiree Marie-Thérèse Sambou and mother of Eveline Diatta, 41, who was one of the first women wrestlers to represent Senegal internationally.

Today female wrestling veers strongly from the origins as rituals surrounding harvest celebrations and folkore.

As Senegal's most popular sport, wrestling has become a source of income for wrestlers in the form of televised matches backed by moneyed sponsors.

We reported earlier that the son of Africa's longest serving president has been given a three-year suspended jail term and a suspended fine of $35m (£27m) for corruption.

Campaign group Global Witness says, external the sentence handed to Teodorin Obiang by a court in France is "the first time ever that a high-level official has been called to account on corruption related charges whilst still in office”.

His assets in France will be seized, including a mansion on Avenue Foch in Paris. He also got a suspended fine of 30m euros (£27m; $35m).

In November, Swiss prosecutors seized 11 luxury cars belonging to Mr Obiang. They said he had plundered his country's oil wealth to buy luxuries, including a private jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia.

He is the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema who has been in power since 1979, and whom human rights groups accuse of systematically repressing political opponents.

Obiang Junior has been vice-president since 2012 and is often presented as his father's successor.

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Defence lawyers denounced the verdict, and accused France of “meddling in the affairs of a sovereign country”.

Relatives of long-time rulers in other African countries are under scrutiny in a case spearheaded by two anti-corruption NGOs.

Family members of former president Omar Bongo of Gabon, and of president Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo are also being investigated.

Read our country profile of Equatorial Guinea.

Why can't we Africans just come together and live happily ever after in... 'Olushambuland'?

That's the hare-brained suggested from our satirical Resident Presidents this week.

They're contemplating current and historical separatist movements in Cameroon, Catalonia, Iraq, DR Congo and beyond.

Ishaq Khalid
BBC Africa, Abuja

The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind Tuesday's attack which killed at least eight Nigerian soldiers in a military base in the north-eastern state of Yobe.

In an online statement in Arabic, the Islamist militant group said its fighters seized weapons and four military vehicles in the attack.

The Nigerian military earlier confirmed there was an attack during which there were casualties on both sides but did not give a death toll.

In the past, an IS-affiliated faction of Boko Haram militant group has claimed it only targets the Nigerian security forces.

Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in the north of the country for nearly a decade.

Read more: Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group?

An international press freedom group is calling for the release from prison of a Chadian journalist who published a story about an aircraft suspected of having flown weapons to Syria.

Juda Allahondoum, editor of Le Visionnaire, has been charged by Chadian authorities with "usurping the title and function" of a journalist and is being held in a prison in the capital N'Djamena awaiting trial, the Committee to Protect Journalists, external (CPJ) says.

The CPJ, which is calling for all charges against Mr Allahondoum to be dropped, quotes Mr Allahondoum's lawyer as saying the trial is scheduled to begin on 2 November.

His lawyer and colleagues believe the authorities are angered by an article published in Le Visionnaire which claims an Airbus 340 was repainted in the style of Syrian Arab Airlines.

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The scandal first emerged last month in the US specialist aviation media which said the aircraft had been spotted in Damascus and that US authorities suspected it could have been used to ferry arms to Syria.

In the wake of the revelations, aviation minister Haawa Acyl sacked Chad's head and deputy head of civil aviation before being dismissed herself by President Idriss Deby on 27 September.

The story spread more widely last month after people tried to understand why the Trump administration had included Chad in the controversial US travel ban, alongside Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Venezuela.

Chad is generally viewed as a US counter-terrorism ally for having deployed troops against Boko Haram and al-Qaeda.

Read our country profile of Chad.

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A protester has been shot dead in the western Kenyan town of Bungoma, reportedly after he tried to seize a police officer's gun.

There were clashes in the town between security forces and opposition supporters who were angry about yesterday's controversial re-run presidential poll.

Election officials say the turnout was sharply down on the initial vote in August.

It was just under 34%, compared with nearly 80% in the election two months ago.

The figures suggest many Kenyans heeded a boycott call by the opposition leader, Raila Odinga.

President Uhuru Kenyatta seems certain to secure a second term.

On Saturday, there will be another attempt to hold the vote in four counties in western Kenya – Migori, Siaya, Kisumu and Homa Bay – where it was disrupted as opposition supporters clashed with police.

Uganda's oldest known male chimpanzee has turned 54 years old. The male ape celebrated his birthday with a fruit cake at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, formerly known as Entebbe Zoo.

Visitors sang happy birthday to Zakayo on his special day, reports the state-affiliated New Vision newspaper, external.

The primate was also celebrated with a birthday parade in his honour, as this tweet from privately-owned NTV Uganda shows:

Zakayo, who retired as the alpha male of the chimpanzee group at the Entebbe centre five years ago, is still popular with younger members of the brood who he was careful to share his cake with.

The male chimp was handed to the centre near Lake Victoria after a history of abuse, both by private owners and during his time in a run-down zoo in the 1970s.

Fans of the chimp are using the hastag #zakayoat54 on social media to congratulate him on his milestone birthday.

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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, has dismissed plans to hold repeat polling in parts of western Kenya and urged his supporters to boycott the exercise, privately-owned Citizen TV website reports. , external

The electoral body postponed voting in four western counties: Migori, Siaya, Kisumu and Homa Bay, after most polling stations failed to open because of opposition protests.

The opposition leader told Citizen TV that Thursday's repeat presidential election was a “sham”.

He said that the opposition coalition Nasa is pushing for a fresh election in 90 days after all their demands on changes in the electoral system are met.

President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to be declared winner of yesterday's election.

In Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, a new rugby team has come together to fight hate and discrimination.

The Khayelitsha Cats are an all-lesbian team determined to raise awareness of the targeted rape and murder of gay men and lesbians in South Africa.

Team Captain Xoliswa Jubeju tells our colleague Christian Parkinson: