24 hours in Ngorongoro, Tanzania from artist Fernando Volken Togni’s ‘24 Hours in…’ series for Qatar Airways’ Oryx Magazine.
Giant Nile crocodile shot in the Zambezi River in Africa.
Don’t be fooled by the perspective!
Qualified nations in the Africa Cup of Nations. Sub-Sahara is killing it.
East African football = sad state of affairs.
Mozambique/British poet Bonnie Bulle
Paradox, written and performed by Mozambique/British poet Bonnie Bulle.
Volcano, Tanzania
Photo: Olivier GrunewaldA camera’s long nighttime exposure reveals the red glow of lava spilling from Mount Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania’s Rift Valley. The volcano’s lava, which appears brown to the naked eye, has the consistency of olive oil.
THIS LADY IS A BOSS!!!! She survived a bungee rope snapping, and fell into croc infested waters.
Australian tourist Erin Langworthy survives a 111 metre bungee fall into the Zambezi river
An Australian woman escaped with just cuts and bruises after her bungee cord snapped during a New Year’s Eve jump in Africa, sending her flying head-first into raging, crocodile-infested waters.
Erin Langworthy’s ill-fated jump from the Victoria Falls bridge - 111 metres above the Zambezi River - was caught on camera, showing the rope snapping and a large splash in the water below.
The footage showed her being washed downstream with the bungee cord still wrapped around her legs.
“It went black straight away and I felt like I’d been slapped all over,” the 22-year-old Perth woman told Nine News.
In the video her friends’ shocked reactions can be heard, including one girl urging the bungee operators to do something.
They can also be heard yelling out her name as she floats down the Zambezi River.
“I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught onto,” Ms Langworthy said.
She swam to rocks on the side of the river, where she waited to be rescued.
“When I was first pulled out of the water they put me on my back and so all the water that I’d inhaled meant that I couldn’t breathe, so I made them roll me onto my side.
“And that’s when I started coughing out water and blood.”
Langworthy was taken to hospital in South Africa, with bruises and grazes all over her body.
“Yes, I think it’s definitely a miracle that I survived.”
The Zambia Post reported Langworthy swam to the Zimbabwean side of the river, which is the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean police rushed down a staircase to her aid, the newspaper reported.
Zambia’s tourism minister Given Lubinda moved to reassure tourists that bungee jumping was safe.
“The bungee has proven to be a very viable operation considering that more than 50,000 tourists jump on it every year,” he told the Lusaka Times.
(Source: dynamicafrica)
Marathon in Kenya
Photo by Japheth Kagondu
(Photographer did not specify which marathon this was…)
Unrelated from normal content of this blog. But give it a watch!
Fish Market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Photo by Annalisa Natali
The Honey Guide Buird has a call specifically for humans and leads them to honey. Almost as cool as a mocking jay
This is the best trailer you will ever see in your life. Ever. Ghana goes in hard.
Video for Gabon’s new African Cup Puma jersey: when art and football intermingle. Enjoy.
I completely love football, not only as a sport but as a form of culture. Some of Western Africa’s countries have produced many greats over the years, it’s only a matter of time ( and financial backing in youth systems) until East African teams will claim a high ranking place in the African Cup of Nations and on the larger scale of european football.
(Source: beneaththepool)
Angolan teenager Mauro Manuel loses fight to stay in the Netherlands
An Angolan teenager who arrived in the Netherlands aged 10 has lost his fight to stay in the country despite a heartfelt plea to the Dutch parliament and a wave of protest at his treatment.
Mauro Manuel, now 18, has been living in the Dutch province of Limburg with a foster family since he arrived in the Netherlands as an unaccompanied asylum seeker in 2003. He is facing deportation because he is an adult. Dutch MPs voted down two motions on Tuesday that would have allowed him to stay in the country permanently. They are expected to vote next week on a compromise motion that would allow him to stay to hear whether or not an application for a temporary four-year student visa has been successful.
On Monday, Manuel made an emotional statement to MPs. “Against my will I have become a symbol for all young, unaccompanied asylum seekers in the Netherlands. I would much rather be a symbol of integration in Dutch society,” he said. “I was put on a plane completely by myself when I was nine years old. I was very sad and frightened … Happily I came to live with good people who are now my mother and father.
“I want to celebrate Queen’s Day every year and, as a footballer myself, I want the Dutch team to be champions.”
The Christian Democratic party initially supported Manuel’s cause but bowed to pressure from its coalition partners, setting the deportation process in motion. There are about 75 children fighting similar battles to be allowed to stay in the country.
(Source: dynamicafrica)
