Africa picture news

02-10-2025

Laughter epidemic in Tanganyika in 1962. And it wasn't ...

In 1962, something strange happened in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) - students at one of the schools began to laugh for no reason. The ...

30-09-2025

Baboon Wars: Aggressive Monkeys Attack People in Cape Town

What to do when nature declares war on man? In Cape Town, residents live under siege from aggressive baboons who raid houses and ...

28-09-2025

Bat migration

Today is International Bat Night, which means it's time to admire an incredible and rare spectacle—the migration of millions ...

27-09-2025

The story of the ghost boy Martin Pistorius, who became a ...

Among the many human phobias, one of the most terrible is the fear of being completely immobilized. Martin Pistorius from South ...

25-09-2025

Charcoal portraits of hyperrealist Major Olajide

There are many excellent artists in the world, but not everyone has the gift of depicting the world realistically. An artist from ...

24-09-2025

Standing before pyramids and had a different head: what ...

Length Egyptian Sphinx of 70 meters and a height of 20 meters. These dimensions make it the largest on the planet monument, carved ...

16-09-2025

African leopards in photographs by Greg du Toit

Greg du Toit is a professional wildlife photographer. He travels a lot in Africa in search of beautiful shots and in his lens ...

15-09-2025

Love polygons, and the death of superstition: the primitive ...

You would think that in today's world there is no place to wild customs? Sorry, you're wrong: the life of the pygmies of the Congo ...

14-09-2025

Amazons of Dahomey — who were the women who put the French ...

Dahomey, a small state located in the West of Africa, became a "tough nut" for the colonizers. France, which claimed these lands, ...

13-09-2025

Stone Forest in Madagascar

The Tsingi du Bemaraha Nature Reserve is located on the west coast of Madagascar and is famous for its amazing stone forest. The ...

12-09-2025

A curious Barbarian had her nose torn off at the bazaar, or ...

The statue of Venus de Milo without hands is a symbol of the era of ancient Greece. The sculpture of a pharaoh without a nose is ...

09-09-2025

The unique Giraffe Manor Hotel offers giraffe dinners

Imagine that you are drinking coffee in the morning in a hotel room, by the window. And suddenly, through the half-open door, a ...

08-09-2025

Amazakhs are indigenous light—skinned Africans related to ...

It is generally believed that the indigenous population of Africa are people with dark skin or, at least, very dark and ...

06-09-2025

African killer pond: Lake Nyos accounts for 1,800 human ...

Lake Nyos, located among the Massif du Mbam Mountains in the north-eastern part of Cameroon, was considered by the locals for ...

04-09-2025

Goats in trees in Morocco

Morocco is a country famous not only for its colorful bazaars and ancient medinas, but also for one amazing natural phenomenon. In ...

01-09-2025

Leopard People are cruel and mysterious killers from West Africa

From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century, there was a Leopard society in West Africa — a secret organization of ...

28-08-2025

Highlights of African Americans ' struggle for their rights

At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, "I have a dream" was performed – the famous speech of the black preacher Martin Luther ...

26-08-2025

An abandoned cinema in the middle of the Sinai desert

Everyone has heard of such a phenomenon as a mirage. In fact, in the middle of the desert you can see the most unexpected things: ...

19-08-2025

The Devil's Font at Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls, or "Thundering Smoke" is located in South Africa, on the Zambezi River, between the countries of Zambia and ...

17-08-2025

How People Partyed in Africa in the Late 1960s

The late 60s, the sexual revolution, distant South Africa, the apartheid regime – it would seem that they have absolutely nothing ...

15-08-2025

Striking photos of Ethiopian tribes

Spanish photographer Diego Arroyo Mendes took a series of amazing pictures of village life in Ethiopia, where people have been for ...

14-08-2025

Liberian maniacs Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor, or The Story ...

When in 1822 the US government acquired a piece of land on the Atlantic coast of the African continent for the freed black slaves, ...

13-08-2025

The Wild Side of Africa

During his trip to Africa, the famous Italian photographer Alex Bernasconi took thousands of pictures-from hiding hippos to ...

12-08-2025

A moment of black humor, or the Simple everyday life of ...

Russia is so big country that could easily shelter any "neighbors", whether Ukrainians, Tatars, Armenians or even Africans. It is ...

11-08-2025

Mgingo is the most populous island in the world

Mgingo Island is located on Lake Victoria in Africa. Its area is about 1.8 thousand square meters. m, and 131 people live on it in ...

09-08-2025

The city of Orania is an example of white self-organization ...

Since 1994, there has been a small town called Orania on the territory of South Africa. It is inhabited exclusively by white ...

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