Featured Source for November 2024: african.pictures
21 October 2024
.png)
akg-images is proud to represent african.pictures, formerly known as Africa Media Online.
african.pictures provides high-quality images from all over Africa covering diverse landscapes, history, politics, and cultural and natural heritage. They are actively involved in empowering photographers from across the continent to create accurate content that tells Africa’s story in a holistic way.
akg-images receives regular additions from african.pictures and currently has over 30,000 images available for licensing. Scroll down to view a curated selection. You can tap here to see more or browse the african.pictures collection on the akg-images website.
People and society
Alois Ntsarib scoops out the seeds of the Nara fruit outside his home along the Kuiseb River dry river bed, south of Swakopmund, Namibia. Ntsarib is a member Topnaar clan, a subtribe of the Nama people, and his people have lived in the desert for 150 years. Harvesting Nara fruit sustains his people. They eat the meat as well as sell the fruit in nearby towns. AKG2314968 © akg-images / african.pictures / Lori Waselchuk / South Photos
Orlando Pirates soccer fans watch as their side take on Kaizer Chiefs at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, March 25, 2010. AKG10399244 © akg-images / Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures.jpg)
Children playing in the veld in Snake Park Soweto, 1993. AKG10547505 © akg-images / Ruth Motau / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Man picking coffee cherries, Ethiopia, 2010. AKG2144283 © akg-images / african.pictures / Graeme Williams / South Photos
Man storing millet in granary, Songo, Dogon Country, Mali. AKG1349304 © akg-images / african.pictures / Ariadne Van Zandbergen
DRC, 29 May 2009: The Ora D’Impfondo School has a student feeding programme where they use produce from the garden which they prepare for the children. The local women help to prepare the meal. Manoic leaves with fish, and plantain. AKG1848148 © akg-images / african.pictures / Graeme Williams / South Photos
Politics
Two young black children peer through a fence and barbed wire at burned out vehicles, against a smoke-filled sky, South Africa. AKG10784467 © akg-images / Ken Oosterbroek / Independent Photographers / african.pictures.jpg)
People push over a burned-out car, as smoke billows from a building in the background, South Africa. AKG10784707 © akg-images / Ken Oosterbroek / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Two alleged guerrillas from Bugsihu, Tom Masaba (pictured), a former captain in the Ugandan Army and Sebastino Namirundu, are prepared for execution by firing squad. Mbale, Uganda. February 1973AKG10958598 © akg-images / Mohamed Amin / Camerapix / african.pictures
Armed khaki-clad members of the AWB dip into an up-turned cap beneath a waving AWB flag. AKG10784628 akg-images / Ken Oosterbroek / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
The Women's March of 9 August, 1956. The march of some 20,000 women to the Union Buildings was in protest of the introduction of pass laws by the apartheid government. African women were required to carry these passbooks at all times, a system designed to restrict their lives, movement and work to designated areas. AKG8741195 © akg-images / african.pictures
May 24, 2009. South African President Jacob Zuma during the opening of the PanAfrica Mall in Alexandra. AKG10976353 © akg-images / Halden Krog / The Times / Arena Holdings / african.pictures
16 - 20 December 1997 - Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma at the The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC). AKG10976362 © akg-images / Adil Bradlow / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Children peacefully marching against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at their schools. AKG819795 © akg-images / African PicturesTradition and Culture
A young Ghanaian man balances a stack of Kente cloth on his head. AKG11123644 © akg-images / Margaret Courtney-Clarke / african.pictures
Young Maasai Morans with their ostrich feathers finery of the morans full dress uniform usually preserved for important ceremonies like Eunoto (graduation of warriors). AKG10739087 © akg-images / Camerapix Photographer / Camerapix / african.pictures
Jemah Saidani is from a rural settlement near Sejenane, Tunisia, renowned for its women potters. Recognition has brought economic relief but has also endangered the traditional craft because of increased quantity demands with little regard for the time required to produce the pottery. Jemah is one of the few exceptions. Not only has she adapted her creative skills to a more modern and refined style, but she still uses the same techniques and materials that have survived for centuries. Her motifs are derived from nature; chehda, honeycomb, and boul thor, the tracks of oxen pulling a plough. AKG11123463 ©akg-images / Margaret Courtney-Clarke / african.pictures
Namibia March, 2002. The Himba people are staunch tradionalists and many live a semi-nomadic iron-age existence have a deep religious belief based on ancestral spirits. AKG2167895 © akg-images / african.pictures / Greg Marinovich / South Photos
South Africa Isandlwana Zululand 1991. Two Zulu’s in traditional dress practice before a ceremony. AKG923103 © akg-images / african.pictures
Young Zulu women dancing in traditional costumes, South Africa, 1987AKG972119 © akg-images / african.pictures / Rodney Barnett / africanpictures.net
Priest reading a 800 year old bible in Chirkos Monastery, Lalibela, Ethiopia. AKG1429089 © akg-images / african.pictures / Ariadne Van Zandbergen
Burkina Faso: It is customary for the wives in a settlement to share their views on the decoration and beauty of one another's coumpounds. Royal settlement. Tiébélé. AKG11123882 © akg-images / Margaret Courtney-Clarke / african.pictures
Men played drums and sing during the official celebration of the Durbar festival in Mepe, Ghana, 2000. AKG2314745 © akg-images / african.pictures / Lori Waselchuk / South Photos
Mbuti Pygmies at Gombari listening to their own recordings. The one on the left is wearing a hunting whistle on a skin cord, Mbuti, Democratic Republic of Congo AKG2166813 © akg-images / african.pictures / ILAM Photographer
Anna Msizi, Mthula stand, Nebo district, has been wearing her brass neck rings since her marriage. AKG11123120 © akg-images / Margaret Courtney-Clarke / african.picturesLandscapes and Animals
Scrub plants mark the subterranean aquifers beneath one of the Namib's dried-up water courses., Namibia. AKG10958200 © akg-images / Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts / Camerapix / african.pictures
Close up of a leopard. AKG1349253 © akg-images / african.pictures / Karin Duthie
Kilmanjaro – view from the plains below, 1993. AKG924169 © akg-images / african.pictures
Game rangers saw off the horn of a rhinoceros as protection from poachers, Etosha National Park, Namibia, 1989. AKG2142391 © akg-images / african.pictures / Gille de Vlieg / South Photos
