#african life

[saydesole]

African Waist Beads 

[madamemarmot]

Watermelon, like too many other gorgeous things in life, is much too fleeting. 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

[the-blueprint]

“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Hispanic is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Number two, Latin people are very passionate, and the music that we love is definitely Afro-rooted — whether it’s Bob Marley or Afro-Cuban — because it deals with rhythms.”

[huariqueje]

Flotsam - Caryn Scrimgeour , 2017.

South African , b. 1970 -

Oil on linen , 150 x 150 cm.

[vestaignis]

Африканский морской лес назван одним из 7 чудес света.

Агентство Bloomberg опубликовало свой список новых семи чудес света,  в котором особо отмечены леса водорослей, известные также как Великий африканский морской лес.

Леса водорослей расположены всего в 16 км от Кейптауна, Южная Африка, это разнообразная и удивительная экосистема.Он состоит из келпа, особого вида бурых морских водорослей, которые вырастают до очень больших размеров. Они растут на дне океана и могут достигать в длину 46 метров. Эти водоросли хорошо растут на мелководье в чистой воде при низких температурах.

По мере роста водоросли формируются в то, что мы называем лесом. Африканский морской лес выпол��яет ту же функцию, что и их калифорнийский аналог, предоставляя пищу и убежище для множества морских обитателей, от промысловых видов, таких как омары, раки и морские ушки, до крупных хищников, таких как капский морской котик. Возможно, самым захватывающим аспектом Большого африканского морского леса является разнообразие видов акул, которые называют эти псевдодревесные среды домом.Этот лес являются домом для ряда редко встречающихся видов акул, включая харизматичную пижамную кошачью акулу и пугливую пятнистую овражную акулу. Между африканскими морскими лесами находятся потрясающие рифы с оврагами и протоками. 

African Sea Forest Named One of the 7 Wonders of the World.

Bloomberg has released its list of the New Seven Wonders of the World, and the kelp forests, also known as the Great African Sea Forest, are a special mention.

Located just 10 miles from Cape Town, South Africa, the kelp forests are a diverse and fascinating ecosystem. They are made up of kelp, a type of brown seaweed that grows to very large sizes. They grow on the ocean floor and can reach lengths of up to 150 feet. These seaweeds thrive in shallow, clear waters at low temperatures.

As the seaweeds grow, they form what we call a forest. The African Sea Forest serves a similar function to its Californian counterpart, providing food and shelter for a variety of marine life, from game species like lobsters, crayfish, and abalone to large predators like the Cape fur seal. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the Great African Sea Forest is the diversity of shark species that call these pseudo-arboreal environments home. The forest is home to a number of rarely seen shark species, including the charismatic pyjama catshark and the shy spotted gully shark. Between the African Sea Forests are stunning reefs with gullies and channels.

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[starrysharks]

this game is a joke

[twixnmix]

Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine in New York City, 1952.

[theereina]

IG: youngafricana

[weareravershq]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)" (c. 1890) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally and the only one to specialize in still lifes. The painting's subject—originally an African gourd brought to the New World by seventeenth-century Spaniards and cultivated by colonists—is significant. Porter chose to paint a watermelon, an earlier symbol of American abundance—and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free Blacks—when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping. By reclaiming the subject in artistic terms, Porter challenged a contemporary racist trope.

[saydesole]

Soulaan🖤

[inbarfink]

[tatesalive]

God is the Ultimate Author - Psalms 139:16✍️✞

"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalms 139:16 NIV 📖🥹🤍

[huariqueje]

Tea and Lemon - Sasha Hartslief , 2020.

South African , b. 1974 -

Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm. 15 5/8. x 19 5/8 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Alexis Preller (South African, 1911-1975), The Blue Plate, 1956. Oil on canvas, 51 x 61.5 cm.

[tokay-blog]

I think everyone have already forgotten the other incarnations of Life, whose designs were drawn last year. All this time they have been on my mind because I also wanted to make them into personalities.

The wild african dog of the five stood out the most, as it belonged to a completely different area. While She-wolf, Bear and Lynx live relatively close to each other, Dog is the only one who lives in isolation and therefore has his own perception of his surroundings (plus the fact that he is blind).

Goes by the name Kaang. The locals probably believe that he is the god who, according to African mythology, created the world. The Dog doesn't agree, but he doesn't deny the rumors that are created around him x)

The She-wolf might have been one of the few who could, and more importantly wanted to, visit him.

But Wolf didn't share that opinion. Too alien. Too out of this world x)