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LANDSCAPES OF AFRICA

Michael Tsegaye, Arenguade / 2011

Flying low over the green patchwork of Ethiopian farmland

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Michael Tsegaye, Arenguade / 2011

Flying low over the green patchwork of Ethiopian farmland

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Santu Mofokeng, Katse Dam Lesotho / 1996

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Jo Ractliffe, Port Nolloth

From the series West Coast Drives, 1986

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Jo Ractliffe, Piketberg 3

From the series West Coast Drives, 1986

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Jo Ractliffe, Piketberg 2

From the series West Coast Drives, 1986

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Jo Ractliffe, Piketberg 1

From the series West Coast Drives, 1986

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Garth Walker, Karkloof Road, Howick, KZN, 2009

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Richard Goma, Superposition 1

Richard Goma is a member of the Congolese photographer collective, Génération Elili. Read full article on the collective on the Addis Rumble blog here.

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Richard Goma, Vue d'Ailleurs 

Richard Goma is a member of the Congolese photographer collective, Génération Elili. Read full article on the collective on the Addis Rumble blog here.

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Somali women

Somali girl, photographer unknown

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Somali Women

Vintage postcard

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Waaberi Band, New Dawn, 1997

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Somali Women

Born in 1948 as Halima Khaliif Omar, Magool (flower in Somali language) was a prominent Somali singers and considered as one of the greatest entertainers of her time. She was the first ever Miss Somalia and sang in the Waaberi band in the 1960's. After singing lovesongs for some years Magool turned to singing Islamic songs in the late 1970's that criticized the then ruling military government. A self-imposed exile followed and when she finally returned to Mogadishu in 1987, she performed a concert "Mogadishu & Magool" that to date is the most succesful concert in Somali history, with more than 15,000 people reportedly turning out in the city's stadium.

Magool died in 2004.

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A young Iman enroute to a press conference in photographer Peter Beard's home in New York in the 70's.

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Somali Women

One of most famous Somali women of our time is probably the greatest black supermodel of the 80's, Iman. Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid was born in 1955 in Mogadishu and went on to study in both Cairo and Nairobi. She was discovered by photographer Peter Beard while she was still in University, and subsequently moved to America to pursue a modelling career. In 1976, one year after her arrival in America, she got her first assignment for Vogue, and her career quickly took pace. She soon landed assignment with prestigious designers (e.g. Versace, Issay Miyake, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and particularly Yves Saint Laurent) and magazines and has been photographed by some of the most notable fashion photographers of our time (e.g. Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Annie Liebovitz, and Irving Penn). 

Here she is, in an 80's Yves Saint Laurent campaign.

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