Lights of Africa. Singita, Luxury African Game Reserve. Singita, Luxury African Game Reserve Singita, meaning place of miracles, is a group of world-renowned games reserves in Africa which provide a positive balance of hospitality, conservation and community for all of their guests.
The luxury lodges contain an eclectic mix of African heritage and European contemporary furniture which adds a luxury feel to this unique African game reserve. About Richard Barker Love Interior Design & Exotic Travel? Follow us.. May 25, 2010 | South Africa Travel | View comments. Picture Show: Kitintale Skate Park in Uganda. Yann Gross's "Kintintale Skates," offers a glimpse at the first skate park in East Africa.
Located in the a working class suburb of Kampala, Uganda, the park was created both for and by local kids, without assistance from either NGOs or government. Gross describes it as both a source of pride and empowerment, a space that not only keeps kids out of trouble, but fosters the development of a real sense of community. It's one defined by respect and solidarity, and it feels like a realized dream.
Africa's Biggest Film Festival Isn't Scared of a Little Jihad. The red carpet at the snappily named Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou While French troops were killing Islamists in Mali last month, thousands of film fans were gathering just a few hundred miles away in Burkina Faso to celebrate the best of African cinema.
Attending Africa’s biggest film festival is a bizarre, somewhat unsettling experience. Crowds laugh at the most unusual parts of films and, instead of being shoulder-barged off the pop-up vodka bar by impatient publicists, you can spend your evenings drinking in the street with refugees fleeing the war in Mali—a considerably different experience to how I imagine an evening's entertainment goes at Cannes or Tribeca. The festival has been running since 1969, but they still haven’t managed to get everything in order quite yet. Arriving at the festival office to find out no one's bothered to print out your press pass and the screening building next door has burned down doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
The Voice Project. Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity. How’s the Congolese Space Program Doing? Some of DTA's employees work on a rocket.
Photo courtesy of Jean-Patrice Keka Ohemba Okese Jean-Patrice Keka Ohemba Okese—also known as the “African Einstein”—is a scientist and the founder of DTA, a company based out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that wants to build rockets that can reach outer space. That’s a pretty hefty ambition to have in a country where 70 percent of the people live in extreme poverty, but by 2008, Jean-Patrice’s Troposphere program at DTA was on a roll. The initiative had been successful in launching a couple of small experimental rockets into the atmosphere, the DRC government had come out publicly in support of the venture, and DTA’s next project, the Troposphere V, was a much more amibtious rocket that was designed to fly over 20 miles into the atmosphere. VICE: How did you get involved in space research?
That was how DTA began? There was a rat on this last rocket that died when the rocket crashed. Wind Power Gains Speed: Efficient, Clean, Endless Energy Source. Extraordinary Photos: The Essence Of The Dinka Tribe In Sudan. 369K views 51 days ago by Gaudrius Dzikaras Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher spent over 30 years taking photos of ceremonies, rituals and the daily life of African tribal peoples.
These extraordinary images tell the story of the Dinka tribe in Sudan. [Read more...] The Dinka people vary their lifestyle by season – in the rainy season they live in permanent savannah settlements and raise grain crops like millet, while in the dry season they herd cattle along rivers throughout their region. Source: carolbeckwith-angelafisher.com Like Dislike 26 points Vote: South-Up Map Projection. True-size-of-africa.jpg (JPEG Image, 2482 × 1755 pixels) - Scaled (37. Transparency. Realistic Land Size Projection. Dear World, Meet Johannesburg. African Fashion International. 70 Days of Jo'burg. A toast to South Africa’s black middle class. In the summer of 2005, South Africa–based entrepreneur Marilyn Cooper decided to give her neighbors in a suburb of the capital, Pretoria, a barbecue treat.
Alluding to the inscription on her drinking glasses, “Soweto Beer Festival,” she asked her guests, “Why can’t we have a Soweto wine festival?” The economic situation was just right for such a celebration, she felt, as many residents of Soweto, a predominantly black township in Johannesburg, were already showing flashes of middle class life: buying new cars, modern electronics, mobile phones, designer dresses and houses. And they appeared to love a good wine. Within a year Ms. Cooper had found a partner, Mnikelo Mangciphu, with whom she organized the first-ever Soweto Wine Festival. Ms. Growing demographic But who exactly is in the middle class in South Africa? In a recent study, Four Million and Rising, Mr. Economy’s engine Available data, says Mr. Entrepreneurs such as Ms. Fast food invasion Urbanization. The African Village where every House is a work of Art.
The African Vatican: The World's Largest Church is a Colossal 1980s Replica. Tippi of Africa.