Eve Blouin Andrée Blouin was born to a French father and a mother from the Central African Republic “I know that you can die twice. First comes physical death… to be forgotten is a second death,” notes screenwriter Eve Blouin, in an epilogue at the end of her mother’s autobiography. Eve understands this sentiment more […]
Credit: Vladimir Srajber from Pexels I am standing on a dune looking out to sea. It’s 2024, but I’m thinking about a very different time. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this 350 km stretch of southern African coast looked very different. It was home to giant zebra, bird species that are now extinct, giant […]
Getty Images Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a small gang-controlled “town” – complete with markets and a red light district – that has grown up deep underground at a disused gold mine in South Africa. Ndumiso told the BBC that after being laid off by a big mining firm, […]
Aerial photograph of the Oued Beht ridge and river, highlighted in color. Credit: Toby Wilkinson Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has discovered the earliest previously unknown farming society from a poorly understood period of northwest African prehistory. This study, published today in Antiquityreveals for the first time the importance of the Maghreb (northwest Africa) in the […]
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Mohamed Hossam/EPA Muslims across the continent celebrate the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, starting in Egypt on Friday… Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters While Tunisians honour the occasion on Sunday with drums and dance in the streets of the capital Tunis… John Wessels/AFP On the same […]
