First Listen to Africa

As part of a cycling tour of 18 months in Africa, the inclusion of African sounds and voices! Although the site is not exclusively on African wildlife, but it gives you a taste of what the continent is all!

Second Taga Safaris in Africa – African Safari News

Get an insight into camps safaris through a variety of African countries. Great observations and reports of wonderful illustrations!

Third Photo-Africa

African Wildlife, Nature and Environmental Photography! Photography tips, photos of the diverse wildlife and much more …

4th Safari Talk

Communities Environment Wildlife! Forums, conferences, trips, talks, interviews experts, Safari, videos of African wildlife … Such a rich source of information!

5th Discover Africa

Discover Africa, one image after another! Perhaps the best African photography there! Search tool that allows you to photos that can be found on certain keywords! All images from Flickr.

6th WildEarth

Live coverage of the African Bush Reserve Djuma in South Africa! Without a doubt my favorite site of African wildlife from all of them! Webcams, chat, live game safaris, bush walks, etc.

In fact, as I am writing to you today, I am viewing waterbuck and impala in real time. How cool is that? There is much to discover! Recently I also saw buffalo and elephants drink down to the water hole!

To hear the sounds of nature, is more astonishing, especially when you have thousands of miles away from the African continent live!)

In fact, I’m afraid if I’m wrong, forget to turn the lid web cam. Suddenly, I almost fell off my chair … hippo calls from the water point … It was as if the animals were at the gates of my backyard!

7th African Safari – Recent observation of African wildlife!

Such a cool service you on recent observations of the wildlife of the Kruger National Park, Pilanesberg allows Addo, Etosha and Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park in southern Africa to receive, directly to your phone! And the best part is, it’s absolutely free! You got me all right: Info wild animals for free! The only costs you may incur from your own service provider, to recover data on your mobile phone. Much cheaper than SMS (less than 1 percent in South Africa by post)!

The tool is especially useful when you are in any of the above reservations, and would like to know where to keep it for wildlife! The system provides an accurate map with markers in different colors depending on the species encountered, and where they were found. For example, red for the lions, green is for the white rhino, black leopard, etc.

Try it out and let me know what you think of the system …

8th Wild Watch

Eyes on the Wild! Get the latest safari guides and guests to over 40 camps throughout Eastern and Southern Africa!

Much of this site is that you get feedback from experts and tourists. In other words, you get a perspective of both ends. Highly recommended when planning a trip to a specific destination in Africa.

9th Wildcast

Africa Adventure Wildlife living in the bush! A renowned wildlife filmmaker invites you to join him in connection with his next African masterpiece.

Yet another aspect of African wildlife are presented here. Fantastic video clips of award-winning filmmaker Kim Wolhuter. Follow the trail of Tjololo, an African Leopard, and get into the hearts of Chiredzi, transports a game reserve in Zimbabwe!

10th Africam

Still live, always wild! WildEarth similar, but it gives you more options as far as live webcam African safaris are affected. Select Nkorho Pan, Tembe Elephant Park, Elephant Plains & Flamingo Iceland! Is also on-demand video clips in Africa, you can see video clips of wild animals!

First, I do not say that anyway to criticize that person. I congratulate him for his honesty and I’m glad he said what he did, because it is a very deep, somewhat, what I would call throws – the history of Africa.

For most people, especially those who have never visited the African continent, the word is associated with various negative images. Hunger, poverty, war, genocide. If a country in Africa, he always makes the news is a bad thing, because what has happened. The images we see starving African children or young men wielding guns and machetes, or a mother in tears because they just lost another child. Thus, Africa is a place of suffering and sorrow. This story is not a positive experience.

But if and when you travel to a country in Africa, I predict that you have a completely different story. The main reason I started kenya works and why I think so much is because I firmly believe that so many people I met in Kenya. Take the orphanage in Busia as an example. So many children there have had a terrible life. Many were abused, lost her parents and siblings of AIDS and other diseases and usually manage to trouble. But I’ve never been to a place where I had more luck, laughter and love.

Also during my time in Nakuru, I met so many young men and women who struggle daily to survive. But they were always laughing and joking with me and were a pleasure to be here. There is real power in Kenya among young people to change their lives and their country better, and this disc is contagious.

Now I do not know that this is a cliché story about “how all Africans have no money, but they are happy,” because it’s cheap. I just want to point out that the history of Africa in the minds of many people wrong. It’s not their fault, and I certainly do not blame. In fact’m sure I felt like this before I’m first visit to Kenya when I was 18 But Africa is a continent with great potential, where people are on a daily basis is actively looking for ways to make their lives and that of their community better.

The world understand that after the Second World War and the “end of Empire. During this time there was great hope that Africa may we store it in some way. The world has seen so much potential on the continent. Philosophically, politically, economically, culturally, there was an excitement about what he would do. hope in the past 60 years, however, and the excitement that has gradually disappeared. Africans have come to be regarded as victims. Passive receiver waits for the next disaster to beat.

This vision must and will change. Now more than ever to unite the continent of Africa to influence their realities and to determine their own future, and we hope to gradually change our African history.

FESPACO began in 1969 by a group of international cinema enthusiasts who wanted to promote a realistic image of Africa and its worldview. The festival was an early robust and secure, but since 1979 the festival every two years from the last Saturday in February every odd year.

The first festival in 1969 was the participation of five countries in Africa and two in Europe, with 24 films, including 18 from Africa and an audience of 10 thousand people. First, the selected films only in Africa. Over the years later he expanded his scope to the production of the filmmakers of the African Diaspora in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean belong. The 2011 (19) hosted more than 80 countries, 170 films and hundreds of thousands of visitors.

The Pan African Film Festival is an opportunity for African filmmakers, producers, actors and writers to show their own video art. There is also an excellent opportunity for networking professionals other films from around the world and learn from their colleagues on the continent. The objectives of the festival are on the market of African cinema, to promote African cinema to post messages to promote films in rural areas, and African cinema on the international markets.

FESPACO goals are the promotion of African cinema, to make by promoting the dissemination and transfer of all African film inside and outside of Burkina Faso, and providing a platform for industry people and their experiences.

Not many film festivals around the world take place in old cinemas open, the projectors are equipped with outdated, missing even more in taxis ferry visitors around door handles and brakes. It’s all part of what the Pan African Film Festival a unique and enchanting.

Because the festival in Burkina Faso is for so many years now hosted namaed the central square of Ouagadougou City filmmaker. Despite the small size of Ouagadougou (population just over 100,000), it has more cinemas than any other city in West Africa. Many are open air with all seats in the full heat of the night of the Sahel during the festival.

The master potter African continent, consisting mainly of women, their skill by hand adroit display carefully design a selection of ceramics. They detail the color of the pot with a sliding or other mixtures of natural vegetable bases. Then apply decorative designs, patterns and tribal symbols with tools made of wood or metal. Finally, they fire tank slowly at low temperature and the surface by polishing or buffing.

Quality flexible wet clay and a potter’s wheel skills allow him to create forms of small water bottles decorative bowls huge retail complex shapes. These decorative elements to give an adventurous aspect of your room.

The handmade African art decoration by a fascinating process. For example, if a ship is created. then it is hard to state a leather dried. Now a potter has a number of ways. Master of ceramics can be cut patterns in detail in the surface of the clay with wood or metal cutting blade. The next election is to produce a rough surface texture when printing complex models with a roulette. It can then polish the surface to a shine or change the original appearance by handles available, or on the legs, giving it a benefit.

The potters often paint the entire surface or apply a slurry (color wash, the clay) is added interest and highlights the decorative areas. These colors often appear on the visible parts of a ship, for example, neck and shoulder of a vase of Africa. Place one of these vessels can decorate to add life in the dark corner of a room or window sill loneliness.

African furniture is the wide range of colorful pottery, ceramics and other crafts. Masterpieces is handmade be the test of time, if purchased wisely. Due to the low labor costs, the art of making home decor, one of the best value for money in comparison to most types of manufactured homes on the market. It is also the earth-friendly because it is made from natural materials from beginning to end. The trend is likely to continue to grow for African ceramics.

As with any other continent has to offer Africa a variety of complex realities, the contradictory results for the individual, in addition, access to information that you need not always clear from the information and the information you find.

The following is a brief description of the criteria used in the reading or looking for news about Africa. Although the list is not complete and there may well be prolonged, I believe that this first day can help. Feel free to add or to check out other useful points.

First Consider the source of information

Africa is a complex and combines the world of many realities creates the gap between rich and poor in many places, two different societies, where the world collide only rarely. For this reason, new sources are often one group or another cut.

Understanding the source of information will help you to recognize the legitimacy of the information you have. For example, a source for new local or foreign? Foreign sources often have better access to political circles, because the government is more concerned with how it is presented to the outside world, but only rarely from foreign sources to bring you the real pulse of the nation. If the source is local, look for accreditation, interviews or firsthand testimony. In Africa, the official news often informally given, while the officer, a new front. This means that the sources that provide access to the government in the vicinity have more credible messages are to be supplied, as compared to non-accredited source to new generations is given. (More on that below)

Second Try to understand the perspective of information

In Africa, press freedom is a sacred duty, and as mentioned above, the new ones are not free and fair, obviously. As a result of the new often reflects the views of the source. The information you get is the perception of the source. In West Africa, is widely used primarily as a continent of war and disease, where the poor and the government is fighting hard to survive ravaged seen, and therefore their lives and their activities are help on the use of the global community and as directed can. As a result, the new most African countries from the West to deal with issues such as aid, sanctions, war and peace, and the discovery of oil. Human rights, rigged elections and corruption are often other issues dealt with in other words, the Western media tend to African efforts to “connect” or imitate Chronicle.

When it comes to the local media and news sources, the dilemma is different. Elite news sources and is well positioned, shows the political life of this country so that their messages mainly oriented accounts of the most important political activities, such as travel and presidential visits, complaints of the opposition, means foreign investment, visiting dignitaries, the Diaspora international news and events to involve the government. In short, present these sources for further tests, information in the perception of Africa in the world.

Finally, the perception of the local media is often directed against the local population, it provides information about the problem that the local population, the issues of energy and gas, employment matters, the government promises kept or not, education, political freedom, Cultural and social security, etc. ..

Third Recognize bias

In the U.S. it is often assumed that CNN is pro-democracy, and Fox News is a Republican arms, whether true or not, that the widespread perception in Africa, not a Republican or Democrat is, of course, but they play still a role shortly.

Since the days of colonization, the Western countries had provided strategic interests in Africa and the political propaganda that many people see certain internal politics in the West African countries, as useful or threatening to their way of living.

If your information is West African News source, always the position of your country with the countries of Africa you are looking for. Public opinion is crucial, and very few Western media say nice things about the government of Zimbabwe for example. Western news media is based on the national interests of their country of origin. They are rarely read the negative report on the Egyptian government has good relations with Washington, but this is not a model of democracy that is still in Zimbabwe, which in turn was torn down, demonized. This is not an attempt to justify the evil of some people, but it is interesting to note that the Western media to report information as they want to consult one country after.

If you want to avoid the release of the new western, you are better for new African news agencies in Africa to search. Again, there is often a tension between the pro and anti. Some news sources are sponsored by the government, while others are dedicated, not to discredit the government, regardless of the good deeds or not. In Africa, the contrast is usually very strong, full of new items as you son “official” that can let the government shamelessly, while others are virtually littered with insults, to be read. Very rare find source of news that are impartial, and it is usually very easy to distinguish the sources of political movements.

Given the polarity of the African societies, and the reality of international relations, we must not look for new pure disgust, but as a vibrant and actor in world politics; filling between the different tendencies can actually help uncover valuable information. But if it does not always reflect new independent …

4th Identify the agenda

If for some reason not on the official news sources, and supposedly professional filters, no use of independent news sources such as NGOs and think-tank. Because they are usually not part of a government, and their work is mainly based on empirical data and research, NGOs and think-tank on a remarkably educated and full of what is happening in Africa. Most of her works are extended to a wide range of topics that do not reflect a vision of the governmental activities, social realities and international implications.

When you receive your messages via NGOs and think-tanks, you are more likely to have access to solid data, according to the think tank, and evidence that the core of what is happening in the country you want.

The only problem presented by NGOs and think tanks is that they have an agenda. The robust nature of their work is influenced by the mission in general, or advice of a government against a problem they are motivated to act as important. Through this program, these organizations often emphasize a problem to the point where it overshadows the others, see it as an exaggeration.

For example, if an NGO is to reduce the agenda for arms trafficking in Africa, they can view information that provide the strong pulse of a country with credible evidence, but their extensive research on the impact of trade arm is more positive information to the point of the to create the impression that you buy to minimize Ak47 to a candy store. This is obviously not with the intent to deceive or to dramatize, but with the aim to use the data to convince world powers to act on the arms trade.

If you know how to retrieve your information from these sources, they are an excellent balance to local and international news.

5th Check the blogs

Africa sends millions of his brilliant son and daughters to study abroad, at universities, other professionals and loses millions of people looking for a better life. While the damage is significant in this brain drain to keep the commitment of all Africans of their homeland is a glimmer of hope.

Since they can not directly in official business in their home countries because of distance or political threats, a member of the African Diaspora voices of many opinions in blogs and personal sites are involved.

The advantage of blogs idiosyncratic that it is a personal note, and response to all the other messages you may have read, is offering.

Many are highly skilled at what they write, and it approaches a very professional manner. You are not restricted by editorial control and therefore are free, honest, educated opinion about what they read, heard or experienced in and from Africa to give.

If they do not, that knowledge of African affairs, many have families abroad to report the first observation of what happens can give.

Because they are so many blogs in relation to Africa, you can not just compare the information and messages, but also hire a writer and a better idea of ??where and how to tell them what they say.

For most people this is a valuable source as above, the general, political opinions, they can offer a personal decision, and give an overview of how and where people live their daily lives, not to mention where the hotspots are.

The disadvantage of blogs is that it can after all just personal opinions, personal opinions and be inspired or motivated by the perception of bias and / or agenda. It is not unusual for an opposition politician in exile abroad to assemble blogs tend to be easier to do something, so careful is recommended for this reason.

6th Search for new support

Every news agency is looking for a ball, and nobody wants to be left to important information.

If you come across some interesting information for your research, after identifying the source, make sure you are still looking, if this information is picked up by other news agencies.

When it comes to Africa, it is very common that new to generalize, but if you have learned to feel useful information, always, if you can find in other Western sources (if those in which your primary sources) and local sources in Africa. Check in blogs and social sites, where it is being discussed, or better, create a new discussion.

The fact of the matter is that if you are looking for information about Africa, the complexity of this condition is not conducive to information at face value, but to ensure that it is shared, discussed, and not held hostage to any perception of bias and will help you get a good grip on what is happening.

7th Use common sense

In politics as in everything happen for a reason, a coup, a social upheaval, political instability and international sanctions.

Africa is not another planet, we know nothing, and it does not appear without a past or history.

In everything you read or learn more about Africa, to consider the context and remember history. Hunger and poverty have not come suddenly, a spark plug all the wars, the poor countries should not be able to buy weapons they do not manufacture ourselves.

The context and the historical reality that now connects nearly every country on earth has the fertile ground as you receive the message, they like to welcome you.

Knowledge is a light that is called an error, the interest and common sense help you navigate the waves of disinformation to earth understanding of the theme is drawn to research.

As already mentioned, this is a list that can be expanded and improved, but also for all those who at one time or another, read the news from Africa and wanted to understand what is happening in Africa, I hope you short list will be useful the next time it happens.