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The Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia. It is the second largest canyon in the worl...
The swimming pool at Mata Mata camp offers a welcome relief from the intense heat of the semi desert ...
Outside reception at the Mata-Mata Rest Camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, one will find a fas...
The River Front Chalets in Mata-Mata rest camp offer a more luxurious bush experience than camping wo...
The Kamqua picnic spot is the meeting place for visitors to the !Xaus Lodge. Visitors to the Kgalagad...
The Kamqua picnic site is located on the Auob river road near the second dune intersection. This also...
Boundless Southern Africa Expedition, a first of its kind journey to link and unite Nature, Culture a...
Boundless Southern Africa Expedition, a first of its kind journey to link and unite Nature, Culture a...
The Auchterlonie Museum is located on the Auob river road, just south of the first dune road intersec...
The view from the Auchterlonie Museum over the Auob river below, and the Auchterlonie waterhole reall...
Welcome to Africa, AKA the motherland! Check out African Internet Radio while you're scoping the panoramas.
The earliest fossil of the homo sapiens family (human beings) was found in Ethiopia, dating back more than 200,000 years. Compared to this length of time, even the "ancient Sumerians" from 6000 B.C. are drooling toddlers.
Let's mention a few African heroes you may have heard of, for inspiration in the face of the continued economic inequality and violence which plague Africa today: Nelson Mandela, first democratically elected President of South Africa, who fought against apartheid and served 27 years in prison while advocating freedom and peace. Haile Salassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, who resisted Mussolini and the fascist Italian invasion of WWII, and who is worshipped as an incarnation of God by the Rastafari movement. Kwame Nkrumah, first Prime Minister of Ghana, advocate of uniting Africa in Pan-Africanism. Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat music, who declared his home to be an independent state, ran for president of Nigeria, and to whose funeral ONE MILLION PEOPLE came to pay their respects.
In June 2001 the African Union was formed, consisting of 53 African States organized, like in the EU, around common economic and political development.
Text by Steve Smith.
