Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Three Rondevals in South Africa

Bourkes Luck Potholes in South Africa

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This port area, which I didn't have anything to do with thankfully, was FULL of people!

​Boat Dock in Ghana – close up of boats in another area below:

Plains of Northern Kenya

​It's not Dune 45 (most photographed dune in the world), but it looks nice - Namib Desert.

Little girl outside a container house in the Township of Langa - two families share this one container; there are several containers in this row; Cape Town South Africa.

​Cape Town, South Africa: This is the middle-class apartment where the 16 families live. South Africa is made up of 84% black, 8% white and 8% people of color (mixed race, middle eastern, etc...) Black is definitely the majority here yet live in the most poverty.

Cape Town, South Africa: I took this photo in a middle-class area of Langa, I'm standing adjacent to a bed where the grandmother sleeps - the bed to the left is for a husband, wife and their two kids - the bed on the right is for a husband, wife and their child. At night they pull a mattress out from under their bed for the kids to sleep on.

Shower that is used by 16 families - (cold water only);  the lone toilet that is used by 16 families; the kitchen, dining & social area for the 16 families - I am standing adjacent to another table. Notice the small sink in the corner. At night the teenagers pull mattresses out and sleep on this floor - doors lock at 11pm and open at 5am. 

Washing Clothes; collecting fresh water in the Langa Township (200,000 people live in this township) - Cape Town, South Africa

Toddlers playing in Langa Township

The rare two-story shack in Gugulethu Township (500,000 people live in shacks in this township).

Boy playing with tire in front of a car wash in Nyanga Township (around 1,000,000 people live in this township).  

​Cote D’Ivoire – children play this game of rolling tires with a stick – it is fairly common throughout Africa

Guinea Bissau – boy carrying rocks on his head

Boy in Cote D’Ivoire – he was lucky enough to have flip-flops, most his age didn’t have any footwear; his stomach was abnormally distended but didn’t have to do with malnutrition.

Cote D’Ivoire – girl fetching water 

​Khayelitsha Township (1.5 million people live in shacks here)

Two sides of Sierra Leone - do you think one affects the other?

Zanzibar - guy sleeping on the grass.  But really, notice the architecture of the buildings – can you see remnants of imperialism?

Swakopmund, Namibia. Germantown, in Africa - you can certainly see signs of imperialism here.

​Between Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia - I saw huts virtually everywhere in Africa. 

​These “beehive” huts in Swaziland are similar but different to those in Zambia. 

Children playing in rural Swaziland; I put the tree in focus in this shot but a better shot of this type of tree (below) is all over in this area.

Imagine running blindly into a tree with these thorns...

Swaziland - boy kicking a make-shift ball made out of a bag of plastic bags.  

Inside a school in Gambia

Inside a school in South Africa

The only thing on the counter at the border (Customs and Passport Control).  Roughly 30 percent of people in South Africa have HIV and Swaziland has the world’s highest at 32 percent coupled with the world’s highest death rate from AIDS giving Swaziland one of the world’s lowest average life expectancy. 

Dilla, Ethiopia – Ethiopians going about their daily lives in this village.

​One of the many goats wandering around this small Ethiopian town.

Street scene in Nairobi - ​the bus I was taking had to pull into another area far worse than this picture. It was an area called Eastleigh.

​Market scene in Liberia

​Liberia – common street scene

​Bus in Gambia

​Sierra Leone – typical road – trucks and busses carry these portable tracks to be able to make it through muddy spots and steep hills.

Road in rural South Africa - it is very common to see people walking along the side of the road and hitching rides.  Notice the speed limit of 100 (62 mph) people do go this fast on these roads which is scary.

South Africa near Addo Elephant Park; roads like this are used for safaris.

Cote D’Ivoire – Housing (left) above the Market (right)

​Guinea Bissau – not so fresh water flowing through town

​Ghana – sign on the beach

Grocery in rural Swaziland near the border of Mozambique.  I went in and tried to buy a Coke and they didn't have one, they had barely anything so I bought some candy and gave the little girl behind the counter a large bill (knowing she wouldn't have change) and left.  

​Sheep heads - they eat what they can off of the head - we were told the cheek is the most prized piece of the head; people selling sheep heads out of the back of their truck in another township of Cape Town.  

Cape Agulhas- Southern Most Tip of Africa where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean "meet"

Cape Agulhas- Southern Most Tip of Africa - it was worth the extra drive to see this.

For this particular road trip around the southern tip of Africa I rented a car in Johannesburg and the car they rented me had very little tread - we drove nearly 2,000 miles (3,200km) with bad tires - this wouldn't be legal in most places to rent a car with bad tires.

 People bungee from this bridge high above the Zambezi River – Zimbabwe is on one side; Zambia the other.
I chose to bungee from a strikingly similar bridge – Bloukrans Bridge (center) – the world’s highest bungee from a bridge.

 African Rhino - I learned that they are shooting poachers who are killing Rhino for their horns. Authorities have killed 20 poachers in Krueger National Park (2012).... After hearing about the stories of how they are taking these Rhino it makes sense. It is predicted that Rhinos may be extinct in 20 years. They are seemingly as harmless as cattle - we were so close I  could have slapped them on rear. Such gentle and calm creatures - they really only care about eating grass.

​This Impala looks as if it narrowly escaped a lion by the looks of the recent gash on her hip.

This young male lion was staring me straight in the eye as I shot this photo, his face was illuminated by the headlights.

​Guinea – chickens being sold at a market

​Gambia – smaller town outside of urban area

DRC: Congo -  throughout Africa vans are a major source of transportation. Like a local bus or taxi (this one was particularly full).

​Gabon - train station with operating service

​Libreville, Gabon – half man / half woman statue along the coastline breaking free from the chains of slavery.

​Cote D’Ivoire – plantains, a lot of plantains.

​Ghana – I can imagine the stories this woman has of living in Western Africa.

​Street food in Cote D’Ivoire

Street food in South Africa.

South Africa - many businesses operate out of spaces like this.

​Guinea – Fuel Station

Not all places in Africa are poor; these houses are in a beautiful area along the Southern coast of Africa. Knysna, Hermanus, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Jeffries Bay, etc... are all very beautiful and modern areas on the southern coast.