Africa

The tragic life and death of the Pygmy Ota Beng, a living exhibit from the zoo

04-04-2024

The tragic life and death of the Pygmy Ota Beng, a living ...

He was the last of his tribe, all of whose members were killed by Belgian soldiers. Despite the fact that slavery in the United ...

Overprotection in a monkey way: everything is not like people

01-04-2024

Overprotection in a monkey way: everything is not like people

Almost everyone knows what hyperprotection is, and few people will argue that it benefits the ward. Oddly enough, the opposite is ...

Everyday life of the Dinka people of Africa: women who do not recognize clothes, defeated cancer and buffaloes

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 ...

The story of Dan Eldon - a photographer who died on the job

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 ...

What is Afrofuturism and what ideas is it based on?

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 ...

How is a beauty pageant among the men of the tribe wodaabe who judge teen girls

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 ...

Tears for money: who are the professional mourners of Ghana

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 ...

The anomalous Lake Fundudzi is the pearl of South Africa, the water from which cannot be taken away

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 ...

The dirtiest tribe on the planet — how people who never wash live

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 ...

Ugliness for the sake of happiness: how mothers in Africa and India mutilate their daughters to arrange their lives

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 ...

The amazing city of Ghadames on the edge of the desert

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 ...

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

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 ...

Community of elegant people: How dudes from Congo live

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 - ...

Tippi from Africa-The famous Mowgli girl

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 ...

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

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 ...

Pink lake in Senegal

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 ...

africa aerial view

05-03-2024

africa aerial view

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

Nasreddin Dinet: French artist who converted to Islam

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 ...

Involuntary terrorist: how a crocodile became the culprit of a passenger plane crash

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 ...

Wildebeest migration — a leap of fate

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fantastic landscapes of Namibia

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. ...

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

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", ...

Portraits beyond the edge

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have unraveled the secret of zebra coloration. You will be surprised

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 ...