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A Somali government soldier reads the Koran during prayers at a mosque in the capital, Mogadishu:

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In Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a young boy walks along Lido beach with a toy gun.

Somali has the longest coastline in Africa and it's all beautiful white sand and the water temps are in 70s at times

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Dear Mama Winnie, maybe the world has forgotten you, but we the young Africans have not. You are a true freedom fighter in the same league as Sankara, Lumumba, Toure, Mandela, Samora, Biko and many more. Just because you are a woman, the world has forgotten so fast that without you, there would be NO Mandela. Without you, there would be No ANC and certainly without you, the war on apartheid may have not come sooner. So on behalf of many millions of Young Africans across the land. I would say Ndiyabulela, Ndiya kuthanda!

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Ma Winnie kept the name & spirit of Mandela alive whilst he was in prison. She made us believe during the dark & turbulent 80's that Mandela will be free one day & that he will become our President. Yes, she was never perfect, but who is perfect? No one!

This is our wonderful Igbo people.. I love Igbo, they are fearless.


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Ethiopia

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neighborhood streets of pretoria

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somali couple

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Beja warrior of Sudan....Beja people are known to be warriors since the pharaohs era both in egypt and sudan. Many paintings on the pyramid walls depict them.

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Ivory Coast
Bride
yes, that's all gold


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kenyan First Family

VIA~ Ahmed Aden

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University of Nairobi, Kenya


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made history on Monday in becoming the first African woman sprinter to win a medal in the history of the World Athletics Championships in the 100m.

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The 25-year-old — the daughter of Gen Mathias Doue, a former chief of staff of the Ivorian army until he was sacked in 2004 by former president Laurent Gbagbo — is keen to add another chapter of history by becoming the first African woman to win a medal in the 200m.

Those heats begin on Thursday, with the final on Friday.

Ahoure, who reached both the 100m and 200m finals at the 2012 Olympics in London, showed in relegating defending world champion Carmelita Jeter into third place in the 100m that she has the mental strength to cope with major finals. Even before the final, her status in Côte d’Ivoire was assuming big proportions, rivalling that of the national football team and their iconic striker, Didier Drogba.

"Am I as well known as the national football team? Yes I am. They (the people) call me the ‘female Drogba’ in terms of being a sporting star ... not much pressure there then!" laughed the engaging law graduate.

"When I won world indoor silver in Istanbul last year I returned to Côte d’Ivoire and I couldn’t believe my eyes as there was a huge crowd to greet me at the airport. It was crazy!"

Ahoure has remained very much an Ivorian despite a bohemian lifestyle from an early age which saw her sent to France aged three and then on to the US, where she was educated.

Indeed, one of her ambitions is to be a role model to other African athletes and to stop them from moving abroad and accepting payment to change nationality and run for other, usually rich, countries such as Qatar.

"This medal was for the Côte d’Ivoire, no other country," said Ahoure, who has five siblings.

"I think it is sad so many African athletes feel it is necessary to move abroad and run for other countries.

"At the same time I understand as they have to make a living and an athlete’s life is a precarious one. One lives with the ever-present fear of injury, which can end your career."

While Ahoure is grateful to the US for having provided her with an education, and with her future career assured as a lawyer, she said she wants her exploits on the track to persuade other Africans to follow her example.

"I hope that I can serve to be an inspiration to other African athletes and inspire other young Africans to take up athletics," Ahoure said.

"The pride I feel when I put on the national team vest is huge and I repay their faith in me by putting the Côte d’Ivoire on the athletics map. This too could be the reward for other African athletes," she said.

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[quote author=PAGAN 9JA][size=16pt]IT IS SAD THAT EVEN OUR ROYAL FAMILIES ARE GOING OUT OF TRADITION AND GOING THE HALF-BRED WAY![/size]


THis guy will never be King.[/quote]

his just angry Nigerian churches have taken over his country

Mbororo women of Cameroon,making fufu

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Igbo wedding in Nigeria.

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Idris Elba.
Half Ghanaian & Sierra Leonea

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Lake Nyasa , Mozambique.

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Ethiopian boy

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orgasticdance: she's more beuatiful thn ur avergae nairaland chic.

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