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14-03-2025

Tears for money: who are the professional mourners of Ghana

Some people find it difficult to show emotions when their loved ones die, but crying and mourning are an integral part of funerals ...

09-03-2025

The anomalous Lake Fundudzi is the pearl of South Africa, the ...

Lake Fundudzi is one of the few lakes in South Africa and, according to tourists, the most beautiful. It is located in the Republic ...

05-03-2025

The amazing city of Ghadames on the edge of the desert

Ghadames, known as the "pearl of the desert", is located in an oasis in the south-west of Libya (the historical region of ...

04-03-2025

Tippi from Africa-The famous Mowgli girl

Tippi Degré is an unusual girl who spent her childhood in Africa surrounded by wild animals that became her best friends. She was ...

28-02-2025

Always on top: why Banna men prefer to walk on stilts

For most of us, stilts are something from the realm of entertainment. These devices are most often associated with the circus and ...

27-02-2025

Wildebeest migration — a leap of fate

Remember the scene from the cartoon "The Lion King". Yes, yes, the one in the gorge. In life, everything happens almost the same ...

25-02-2025

Schindler's Witch: The woman who saved hundreds of lives ...

She was considered a witch, but it was thanks to this that she saved hundreds of people from certain death. So embodied evil ...

24-02-2025

The Mysterious Skeleton of Hans Reck, Who Lay in the Ground ...

Modern humans, similar to us, appeared only about 100 thousand years ago. Among the species that lived before, there are many of ...

21-02-2025

The Cradle of humanity

Ethno-photographer Joey Lawrence took these expressive pictures in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia in 2010. Due to the dense jungle and ...

20-02-2025

What is Afrofuturism and what ideas is it based on?

We usually associate Africa with half-naked savages, exotic predators, impenetrable jungles and crazy dictators. Therefore, the ...

19-02-2025

How is a beauty pageant among the men of the tribe wodaabe ...

Wodaabe — the nomadic tribe that lives on the territory of Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad. Once a year the men of this ...

18-02-2025

What children play in African slums

Everything is learned in comparison. Today our children are spoiled by an abundance of toys, thanks for this to commodity abundance ...

16-02-2025

Nasreddin Dinet: French artist who converted to Islam

In the 19th century, traditional European art depicted the countries of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as an exotic world ...

15-02-2025

I'll be damned! This is the only surviving pirate graveyard

If you ever get the idea of watching whales come to the surface, there is no better place than the island of Nusi Buraha off the ...

15-02-2025

The life of a giraffe is a daily hell and all because of the ...

These animals are, without exaggeration, is known to us from early childhood — we saw them in cartoons, zoos, in the alphabet ...

13-02-2025

Involuntary terrorist: how a crocodile became the culprit of ...

An amazing tragicomic incident occurred in August 2010 in the sky over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A miniature aircraft ...

08-02-2025

Witch camps in Ghana — how women who have become victims of ...

Even in the 21st century, there are places on our planet that have been forgotten by civilization. These include Ghana, a country ...

08-02-2025

africa aerial view

Photographer Martin Harvey made an incredible helicopter trip over the expanses of Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Kenya), capturing ...

06-02-2025

Pink lake in Senegal

There is a lake in Senegal that is bright pink. It was as if potassium permanganate had been poured into it. The water here is so ...

31-01-2025

War paint and superstition wild: amazing pictures Karo tribe

Stunning pictures show the life of the tribe Karo — the smallest in Ethiopia.Members of the community covered from head to ...

30-01-2025

Congo Muller: A Nazi and an African mercenary with a Devil's ...

The Soviet press called the former chief lieutenant of the German Wehrmacht, Siegfried Muller ,a "rapist and murderer", a "sadist", ...

30-01-2025

The story of Corporal Jackie — the most unusual hero of the ...

We are used to the fact that dogs and horses serve in the army together with people, but sometimes quite unusual animals, such as ...

29-01-2025

Fantastic landscapes of Namibia

Hougaard Malan from South Africa, traveling in Africa, collected a huge collection of photographs dedicated to this continent. ...

26-01-2025

Francisco Nguema: mad President killer who ate the state Treasury

Francisco Macias Nguema, who served as the President of Equatorial Guinea, from 1968 to 1979, even among African leaders may be a ...

24-01-2025

Why do Africans have dark skin if black attracts heat

In summer, the optimal color of clothing has always been white. This is especially true in hot countries where the intensity of ...

22-01-2025

Scientists have unraveled the secret of zebra coloration. You ...

You can forget the zoology classes that taught you about the zebra's camouflage coloration, designed to dissect its silhouette ...

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