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March 15, 2021
3466 SIERRA LEONE - Man with clothes iron in Freetown
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3466 Man with clothes iron in Freetown Even if Sierra Leone is a resource-rich country, it remains among the world's poorest countries,...
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March 6, 2020
3450 ETHIOPIA (Amhara) - Tomb of Adam - part of Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela (UNESCO WHS)
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Impressive in its simplicity, the Tomb of Adam is a huge square block of stone stands in a deep trench in front of the western face of...
November 16, 2017
1318, 2232, 2647, 3104, 3198 TANZANIA / KENYA - Maasai people
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3104 Tanzania - Young maasai milking a cow Posted on 26.10.2014, 22.01.2016, 03.07.2016, 01.07.2017, 16.11.2017 The Maasai are a Ni...
February 18, 2017
2954 ALGERIA - National Carpet Festival in Ghardaïa
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Located in the Sahara Desert , Ghardaïa is part of a pentapolis, a hilltop city amongst four others, built almost a thousand years ago...
December 30, 2016
2922 UGANDA - Matooke
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Matooke , also known as ebitookye in south western Uganda , and ibitoke in Rwanda , is the fruit of a variety of starchy banana, c...
November 12, 2016
2863 RWANDA - The intore, or dance of heroes
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Rwanda has been a unified state since pre-colonial times, and the population is drawn from just one cultural and linguistic group, the...
October 16, 2016
2828 SENEGAL - The happy people of Cap-Vert
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Cap-Vert is a peninsula in Senegal , and the westernmost point of the continent of Africa and of the Old World mainland. Originally c...
June 19, 2016
2624 BENIN - Peoples of Benin and their houses
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About 42 African ethnic groups live in Benin . They settled in this teritory at different times and also migrated within the country...
May 24, 2016
0084, 2573 GHANA - Traditional Huts
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Posted on 27.12.2011, 24.05.2016 Unlike the polite architecture , the vernacular architecture is based on local needs and constructio...
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April 18, 2016
2474 SENEGAL - Saly Portudal
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Located on the Petite Côte of Senegal , south of Dakar , on a sandy beach lined with coconut palm trees, Saly Portudal is in nowadays...
April 16, 2016
2077, 2464 CAMEROON - Bamileke people
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2077 A Bamileke dancer with an elephant mask Posted on28.11.2015, 16.04.2016 Dominant in Cameroon 's West and Northwest Regions...
April 2, 2016
2429 SENEGAL - Pirogue men
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Senegal , a country with 500km of coastline, has more than 21,000 handmade pirogues in their ports, from Saint Louis to Ziguinchor ,...
March 30, 2016
2421 CONGO-KINSHASA - The Pende people
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The Pende or Phende (ethnonym: Bapende or Baphende; singular Mupende or Muphende) are an ethnic group found in the south-western Democ...
March 29, 2016
2418 SENEGAL - Bassari (Aliyan) people
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2418 Youg Bassari girls, granaries of millet and Flamboyant tree The Bassari (A-liyan, Boin, Tenda Boeni) people are agro-pastoral S...
March 27, 2016
2415 MALAWI - A fisherman on Lake Malawi
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Located between Malawi , Mozambique and Tanzania , Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique) i...
March 21, 2016
2394 SOUTH AFRICA - Paarl - part of Early Farmsteads of the Cape Winelands (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)
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Located just outside Cape Town , in the Western Cape province, Paarl is the third oldest European settlement in South Africa and the...
February 25, 2016
2328 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE - A Punu mask
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The Punu , or Bapunu (Bapounou), are a Bantu group of Central Africa and one of the four major peoples of Gabon , inhabiting interior...
February 13, 2016
2286 SOUTH AFRICA - The people and their traditions
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South Africa is a nation of about 55 million (2016) people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. However by far the ...
February 6, 2016
2265 SENEGAL - Serer and Fula women in Saloum
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Located north of the Gambia and south of the Petite Côte , Sine-Saloum is a region in which were for hundreds of years the kingdoms o...
January 2, 2016
2178 CHAD - Wodaabe man
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The Wodaabe (or Bororo) are a small subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group, traditionally nomadic cattle-herders and traders in the Sahe...
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