Africa
01.05.24
The faces of Ethiopia
![Dian Fossey - the life and death of the brave "Queen of the Monkeys"](/img/2024/dian-fossey-the-life-and/dian-fossey-the-life-and-540x310.jpg "Dian Fossey - the life and death of the brave "Queen of the Monkeys"")
01-04-2024
Everyday life of the Dinka people of Africa: women who do not ...
There are not many places left in the world where people live in harmony with nature and preserve an original way of life carried ...
22-03-2024
The story of Dan Eldon - a photographer who died on the job
Photography is a dangerous profession, especially if your specialization is reportage photography. These people have to work in the ...
17-03-2024
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 ...
17-03-2024
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 ...
16-03-2024
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 ...
16-03-2024
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 ...
15-03-2024
The dirtiest tribe on the planet — how people who never ...
We all remember Korney Chukovsky's poem about Moidodyr from childhood, it ends with life—affirming verses: "And in the bath, and ...
15-03-2024
Ugliness for the sake of happiness: how mothers in Africa and ...
The concepts of female beauty in different countries differ significantly. The canons of attractiveness have been formed for ...
13-03-2024
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 ...
12-03-2024
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 ...
10-03-2024
Community of elegant people: How dudes from Congo live
Photo report by Francesco Giusti about members of the SAPE community (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes - ...
08-03-2024
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 ...
08-03-2024
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 ...
06-03-2024
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 ...
05-03-2024
africa aerial view
Photographer Martin Harvey made an incredible helicopter trip over the expanses of Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Kenya), capturing ...
05-03-2024
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 ...
04-03-2024
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 ...
02-03-2024
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 ...
27-02-2024
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 ...
27-02-2024
Fantastic landscapes of Namibia
Hougaard Malan from South Africa, traveling in Africa, collected a huge collection of photographs dedicated to this continent. ...
24-02-2024
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", ...
20-02-2024
Portraits beyond the edge
Photographer Marc Garanger took these photos in Algeria during the War of Independence (1954-62). He happened to work there as a ...
18-02-2024
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 ...
17-02-2024
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 ...
16-02-2024
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 ...
11-02-2024
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 ...