#africa

[troythecatfish]

[reasonsforhope]

"The struggle to keep one of the world���s largest and rarest antelope species alive has taken a massive step forward in Kenya.

17 mountain bongos have been flown to Kenya from the Rare Species Conservation Center in Florida for eventual reintroduction into their natural habitat.

A subspecies of bongo, the largest of the forest-dwelling antelope, the eastern, or mountain bongo, numbers less than 100 individuals, and is listed by the IUCN as Critically-Endangered. More survive today in zoos than in the wild.

The history of the animal is an interesting one, as it’s believed to have become a forest species when climate change turned savannah areas into forests thousands of years ago. In the case of the mountain bongo, their home range is located in southern Kenya, on the slopes of Mount Kenya National Park and in the surrounding woodland.

They are the world’s third-largest antelope species behind the giant eland and common eland.

Pictured: Female mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) photographed at Mount Kenya National Park.

Tourism Minister Rebecca Miano described the arrival of the bongos at the country’s main airport on Sunday night as “emotional and so cool.”

The animals will first be kept in an acclimation center run by the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) that will protect them while they re-hone their instincts for wild living.

Within three months, the BBC reports, the KWS will be welcoming another shipment of these bongo from captive breeding programs across Europe.

The last time a large shipment of animals like this made it to Kenya was in 2004, when 18 animals arrived safely. They successfully integrated with the wild population, and though some died of tick-borne diseases, it demonstrated that captive animals can successfully make it in the wild if given time and training."

-via Good News Network, February 26, 2025

[harvestheart]

African Canvas Margaret Courtney-Clarke

African Canvas Margaret Courtney-Clarke

The Art of Africa is a casualty of colonial exploitation, surviving principally in the museums of other countries. ~ Nadine Gordimer

“My objective in this work is to document an extraordinary art form - vernacular art and architecture in West Africa - that is not transportable and therefore not seen in museums around the world. It is an attempt to capture the unseen Africa, a glimpse into the homes and into the spirit of very proud and dignified peoples. In much the same way as I photographed the art of Ndebele women, I have drawn on my personal affinity for the art itself, for methods, design and form, rather than the socio-anthropological or political realities of a people or continent in dilemma. These images portray a unique tradition of Africa, a celebration of an indigenous rural culture in which the women are the artists and the home her canvas.”

[inatungulates]

Common waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

Observed by steve1984a, CC BY-NC

[blackstarlineage]

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

I went down a rabbit hole from the phrase "Fela Kuti's Wives" and oh boy.

fela kuti’s wives  *heart eyes emoji*

[the-blueprint]

New Orleans Louisiana "second line".

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

african lion Amersfoort 3L0A0652 by safi kok

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

have you done vinegaroons???

Not yet!

Also known as vinegaroons, in reference to their defense mechanism of spraying an acid that smells similar to vinegar at their attacker.

[moth-the-osha-violaton]

I need ab entire outfit covered in their(dropped not taken from live birds) feathers asap

[herpsandbirds]

Johnston’s Chameleon (Trioceros johnstoni), male, family Chamaeleonidae, found in the high altitude rainforests in the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.

Photograph by Robin James Backhouse

[afriblaq]

resist.riseup.movement

Residents in the historically Black Lincoln Heights Village in Cincinnati have organized community defense after a provocation by a neo-Nazi group.

[inatungulates]

African bush elephant Loxodonta africana

With piapiac Ptilostomus afer

Observed by ornithondar, CC BY-NC

[south-africa-official]

Official post of Africa

some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

[blackstarlineage]