Pictures of the Day

Our Pictures of the Day captures the essence of everyday lives in Africa. It shows people going about life in varied economic, social and cultural settings.

South Africa On Display

South Africa. A country with 11 official languages, a multitude of ethnic groups, known far and wide for its oppressive…

Migrants Crossing The Ténéré Desert – Niger

Since the beginning of 2009, about 8,000 migrants have crossed the Tenere Desert each month in a bid to reach…

Streetlight

Ethiopia is a country rich in culture, history, culinary art - and street children.  In the capital Addis Ababa more than 100.000 people live…

Talmat’s Algeria

Algeria is my favorite African country, perhaps because I am French-Algerian. After travelling extensively in many Arab or African countries, I found that there…

Chad: A Country in Crisis

If there is a single nation in Africa that has gone abruptly from the most brilliant of prospects for the next quarter century to…

Cairo

I dream of travel and when the opportunity to go to Cairo presented itself, I was all over it, even…

The Other Sudan

KOLMEREK, Sudan -- Every morning, 18-year-old Paul Maluk wakes up under a cow-skin he uses as a blanket. He is surrounded by thousands of…

Daily Life in Zanzibar - Tanzania

My story is a very simple one: The story I want to tell is one about a small community of local people living in…

No Pain No Gain

Boxing in the suburb of Bukom, in Ghana's capital shows the tangible fighting spirit of the area which has produced several…

And So It Begins!

The African Lens project is an inspired project designed to tell the story of Africa.  It is based…

The New Visual Stories of ‘Africa’

What is the visual story that needs to be told about Africa? Is there a pictorial strategy that can account for one billion people,…

Return to Kailahun

The district of Kailahun is where Sierra Leone's civil war began. In 1991, rebels crossed over from Liberia and began their attacks on villages.…

My Africa

Over a year ago, I stumbled upon the New York Times Lens blog and was instantly hooked! Such…

Amateurs in Africa - Ghana

Apart from our two dollar camera and lack of photography knowledge we only knew about South Africa and its safaris but we wondered about…

A Home Visit