Africa is beautiful (pics and landscape,) the Africa that we never see on the tv.

It is always Africa’s most primitive people—the Bushman, Pygmies, and Maasai— who make up less than .001% of Africa’s total population that we see the most on TV, in movies, in magazines, etc. Why? There are more white Africans than there are "primitive people" in Africa, so it's fair to say that the whites will better represent the African continent

Thus, I will post pictures of the parts of Africa which for some reason, are never shown on TV or movies in the Western world. I hope this would help clear some myths, misconceptions many people have about the secong largest continent in the world.


Libreville, capital of Gabon in Central Africa

 

Nice pics man. You take these?

 

The Republic of South Africa is by far the most developped country in Africa with remarkable infrastructure.


Pictures of Johanasburg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481221

Durban, South Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481716

Capetown, South Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481714


South Africa in pictures

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=294419

South African roads infrastructure

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=419671

 

Kenya, East Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=456648


Kenya´s Hotels, Eco-Lodges, Clubs, Restaurants, Bar and Art Galleries

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=469374


Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=271198

Tripoli, capital of Libya in North Africa.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=445651

Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=515151

Tunis, Capital of Tunisia in Northern Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=474739


Kharthoum, capital of Sudan in Northen Africa. One would never think that just south of the country, the human tragedy in Darfur is taking place

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=398255

 

Libreville, capital of Gabon in Central Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=385849



Kampala City, capital of Uganda in East Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=386603


Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=470951


Kigali, capital of Rwanda, little country in The Great Lakes of Central Africa made famous by Don Cheadle

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=387734


Algiers, capital of Algeria in North Africa. The country of origin of the French legend Zinedine Zidane.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=481238

Cairo, capital of Egypt in North Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=447815

 

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Talib Kweli's song Hostile Hospel is set in Lagos, looks beautiful.

 

Bamako, capital of Mali in Western Sahara

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=382239

Luanda, capital of Angola in South-Central Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=329829

Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=582019

Maputo, capital of Mozambique in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east. That's where they shot part of the movie "Ali" with Will Smith and also part of "Blood Diamond"

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=388281


Djibouti,a country in eastern Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=392208

Abidjan, capital of the Ivory-Coast in West Africa. Before the civil war of late 1999 and continued till 2003, this city used to be known as the "Paris of Africa"

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=486725

Lusaka, capital of Zambia located in South-Central Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=384482


Reunion Island, is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 km (130 miles) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=519648


Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, a country in North-West of Africa
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=388920


N'Djamena, capital of Chad in Central Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=532028

 

Hey, how do you post google links so they can appear directly like this, SarahS? I can't figure it out.

 

African highways

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=495221

Modern shopping malls all over Africa

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=428406

I have been asked before if I came by boat or many people wonder how I came to the United States. So here it is:

Pictures of African Airlines

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=489426

African tourists attraction

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=470442


Photos of African Airports

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=555101

Photos of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=388690

 

Nope. These images are courtesy of google. There thousands more in flickr.com, but... too lazy to searh for them

 

North America is famous for Niagara Falls, but how often do we hear about Victoria Falls in Southern Africa? There are both side of the falls, one in Zambia and the other in Zimbabwe. One country was known as North Rhodesia and the other as South Rhodesia.

 

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa, is the highest peak in the African continent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilimanjaro

 

Beautiful pictures. I've always wanted to visit South Africa!

 

Pictures of Kinshasa, my hometown and capital of the ex-Zaire(now Democratic Republic of Congo). Kinshasa is also the largest metropolitan city by land area in Sub-sharan Africa, and second in population to Lagos, Nigeria.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa

 

More pics of Kinshasa


Pictures of Kinshasa in the seventies

http://lardc.com/hellin/escaleakinshasa.htm

Grand Hotel Kinshasa









http://www.congoplanet.com/picview.jsp?pictureID=34&n=1&ch=38

 

africa does get a bad rep in US media...

most movies and tv series show Africa as some war-torn, fu*ked up continent, with nothing but jungle, huts, and flies...

i've rarely seen sweeping shots of it's urban landscape like that.

 

Mach, these were great to see. I especially liked the Lagos pictures as that is where my Mom is living for now (she's in a tiny village near it).

Have you been to Mount Kilimanjaro? I've always wanted to ascend it and of course see Tanzania.

Thank you for sharing these.

 

Victoria Falls looks good. I'd love to go there

 

Mach, the African encyclopedia. Good pictures, nice one.

 

The Africa You Don't See on TV - Nairobi, Kenya


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