“Everyday Africa” Will Make You Want to Book a Trip Tomorrow

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Lilly E
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One of our favorite Instagram accounts that we’ve recently discovered is Everyday Africa, a project which showcases the best of Africa to interested followers.

This account is a shared account in which a large group of African travel photographers work together to showcase the best and most interesting of the African continent.

Africa is an incredibly varied and diverse continent that is much bigger than most people imagine. It encompasses all kinds of countries and landscapes, from Algeria’s deserts to Kenya’s grasslands to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s amazing rainforests.

The photographers over at @everydayafrica do their best to showcase stunnning photographs that feature the best of African diversity and what the continent has to offer.

In addition to pictures of the landscape, the folks that curate @everydayafrica also show pictures that bring African cultures to our screens as well.

Take a look, for example, at this stunning photograph of the intricate makeup and clothing worn by Ethiopia’s Kara tribe.

While many of us haven’t had much of an opportunity to discover Africa in depth, if you follow Everyday Africa on Instagram, it will inspire you to travel to Africa and to appreciate all of the diversity that it has to offer.

Now, you only have to decide where your next African destination will be.

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Village: Kwesi Nkran, W/R, GH. 28/09/2018 Grace Osei (50, widow): In some worlds, money loses its solidness, nobody speaks about it in definite terms anymore. They don’t say “I have 100 cedis in my bank account” or “I earn 50 cedis every week” or any such language of specificities. They talk about money as one recounts a hazy dream; an apparition that half manifested, a mystery they can’t fathom. I wasn’t aware such a world existed until I was recently commissioned by UNICEF to do a story on Inequality in Ghana. Ideally, a nation would have its super-wealthy few, and its miserably poor few, and the masses somewhere in between. Inequality is when the numbers at the extremes grow whilst the numbers in the middle shrink. There is no omen of impending doom more accurate than that widening gap. Like Cassandra, clairvoyants like us, can through our mediums- photography, writing and videos, draw the nation and the world’s attention to this phenomenon but the demigods who rule down here get to call the shots. We can only hope that they’ll hearken to the omen and save our Troy from burning. To avoid the obvious trap of juxtaposing poverty porn and opulence, I decided to tow the middle path; drive around the country, speak to regular folk and see what I will hear. Grace is a cocoa farmer. She is also a widow. She has buried four of her 9 children but God has replaced those with 5 grandchildren. Grace believes her wars are more than just physical. There is no hospital or clinic where she lives. There is no school where she lives. There is no running water where she lives. Grace is a spiritual woman who believes the devil is after her, and her family. In Africa, another name for the devil is poverty; and it’s stuck it’s ugly hook deep into the psyche of Grace. Most of the problems in Grace’s life, money can fix. Her deceased husband and children’s lives could have been saved if they’d had access to a good medical facility on time. And with her 5 remaining children and grand children struggling to have access to good education, the future also looks bleak.

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