Videos of Everyday Life in Africa

[African Peasant]

Africa still has a long way to go.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

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Go Skateboarding Day 2014 - Gaborone, Botswana

Just a bunch of kids skateboarding and chilling.

This is all I needed to see!

 

[Nymbus]

Buriful thread brehs...this the side they don't tell you about
Jokingly bring up a big trip to africa one day around the fam and they like
"Isn't that where ebola came from?"
"We don't know what kinda pagan religions they got out there"

One day brehs...one day.

 

[mbewane]

Right, and no one is advocating that. It's still their land and country. @Angelic Servers is right though, unless you have family or other close ties in a particular country, one has to be strategic for such a move. Why not help fill-in a gap a country has in a particular field in order to improve it.

Concerning leverage, I'd say it'll depend on what the country needs. For example, many of these countries are trying to improve their healthcare infrastructure, especially with diseases like ebola being out there like that. If you are a medical practitioner or administrator with experience in such a thing, that's something to look into.

Point being, its not about dictating how the countries should act, ultimately, they (the governments and / or consumers) will accept your help / services or not. But the nations need investments and /or talented individuals to further develop their nations. Blacks in the diaspora have that. Gotta find out which country or countries can be a fit for you.

The sad part is that some African countries HAD good healthcare infrastructure but had to tear it down because of the neoliberal policies implemented by the IMF (in order words, by Western governments -US especially-).

And then they say they want to send "help"

 

[How Sway?]

The sad part is that some African countries HAD good healthcare infrastructure but had to tear it down because of the neoliberal policies implemented by the IMF (in order words, by Western governments -US especially-).

And then they say they want to send "help"

 

[TMNT4000]

Breh you have no clue.. cacs in the club lookin at the women like . seriously though it's about securing the growing economic future of africa. Chinese and Indians are there heavy as well

I fear that too, I just hope African nations make sure that black natives control economies in their country.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

There's a dozen 'Back to Africa' threads on here. It's nice to post pics and videos but they don't paint a complete picture or tell the whole story. We can't all go back to Africa 'just because'. We need a real strategy....some concrete ideas. Us being Americans/Europeans puts us at a huge advantage over the native Africans as we have money and education. We need to muster a way to leverage those resources and make a meaningful contribution to Africa.

I think it's a good idea to first take advantage of being in the US/EU by obtaining a degree and 'getting your money up' THEN go to Africa. Africa needs more engineers, doctors, businessmen, programmers, etc. In order for countries like Nigeria and South Africa to grow they need foreign investments. Better to have black foreign investors than Chinese/Americans/Europeans. The dollar maybe devaluing but our money still goes a long way in some of these countries.

Money, sure. Even though there is a so called 'middle class' in Africa.

Education - not so much - there are plenty of great learning institutions in Africa. And there is definitely less of a Western lean to their education system too.

 

[Birnin Zana]

Can you travel freely throughout the continent with a passport, or do you have to get a visa to fly say from Senegal to Kenya?

Very good question, just looked it up. In general, yes you would need a visas. Africa has several regional economic blocks and those block influence which countries get visa free access. They don't have a Schengen visa system Europe has, in which you only need one visa for EU countries within 90 days.

A random find, a lot of Carribean countries can travel to many African countries visa free. Carribean brehs, this may be something y'all may want to look into.

More info here: http://www.projectvisa.com/regions/Africa

 

[Ronnie Lott]

This statue is so powerful

(Saved to desktop and phone screensaver)

 

[Birnin Zana]

The sad part is that some African countries HAD good healthcare infrastructure but had to tear it down because of the neoliberal policies implemented by the IMF (in order words, by Western governments -US especially-).

And then they say they want to send "help"

Africa as a whole has to stop fukking with the IMF for a while

 

[Trajan]

I'm 28.

My mom is in her 70s so I figured I might as well since shes been nagging me about it ever since I got my bachelors. She don't wanna die here.

Mashallah

That's decent

 

[NobleDrewAli]

I'm ashamed that I'm the least bit surprised by this. They had me brainwashed brehs.

 

[mbewane]

I'm ashamed that I'm the least bit surprised by this. They had me brainwashed brehs.

The machine is powerful breh props to @bdizzle for putting in work

 

[RealAssanova]

@bdizzle comin thru with that recognition...dapped + repped breh

that is the motherland...

i'm going back in 2 weeks from Dec 13th - Jan 6th. Hargeisa, Somaliland.

I was just there this past summer and i already gotta go back........but hey, when business calls...you gotta go.

i got pics from there this past summer...but how do i post it? I tried copyin/pasting from my iphoto album but it wouldn't work.

 

[Ria_21]

wow some beautiful pictures hopefully one day when somalia recovers I can return home. Some developments/pictures of somalia 2014 video of a new somalia
Somalia beach

A Ottoman style mosque built to hold 2,000 people

A tropical village in somalia's capital city

Biggest hospital in Africa to be built in somalia

Turkey's biggest embassy is going to be build in mogadishu somalia's capital

Somali people chilling at liido beach