Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
Photo by Mama Casset
Sénégal
Les st Louisiennes, St Louis du Sénégal, 1915
“The St Louisians, St Louis, Senegal, 1915”
Photo by Seydou Keita
Mali, circa 1952-55
This History of Cator Manor Shabeen
Situated about five kilometers from the centre of Durban, Cato Manor is an area rich in cultural and political heritage.It was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato.
Cato Manor’s first residents, the Indian market gardeners, to whom Cato sold the land, later leased plots to African families prohibited from owning land themselves.
The vibrant, Afro-Indian culture that came into being from this shared space became a trademark of the area. Its Zulu residents knew the warren of shacks, shebeens and shops that grew into Cato Manor as Umkhumbane– named after the stream on whose banks the shantytown sat.
Cato Manor survived and thrived for many years as a rough-hewn community in direct contradiction to the Apartheid government’s policy of racial segregation.
“Les deux coquins”
Malick Sidibe
1975
Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé
Femme au soleil. Studio Miwahib. 1970 ©Fouad Hamza Tibin/Elnour
Abdulla Ibeid et deux de ses fils, Tribu Rezeigat, clan Chigerat Darfour Ouest. Novembre 2004. ©Claude Iverné/Elnour
Studio photographs taken by iconic Senegalese photographer Mama Casset.
More photographs from Mama Casset can be seen in this must-have book, ”MAMA CASSET AND PRECURSORS OF AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY IN SENEGAL”.
Photographic series by Beninois photographer Ibrahim Sanlé Sory
Portrait from the black and white photographic series ‘Nights’, taken in Nairobi, Kenya, by photographer Brendan Bannon.
In the Casbah district in Algiers, French troops stand guard, always on the lookout for possible anti-France riots as daily life goes on for a barber and his client.
