African United Zone

24/03/2025

Donholm is one of the oldest estate in the Eastlands area, of Nairobi. Established around 1900, the name comes from a colonial plantation owner James Kerr Watson (3 Oct 1881 – 11 Nov 1955), who gave the name "Doonholm" after a place in Scotland to his 4600 acre dairy farm there.
Watson introduced the Ayshire cows in Kenya. He was also the first farmer to build a cattle dip to treat his animals from tick infestation.He built Donholm Road , a track in his farm to deliver milk to the City.(Donholm Road is currently Jogoo Road).
Initially the estate spread from City Stadium to its current location. 1940 Watson sold a 1/3 of the farm to a Polish national to settle some of his debts + to deal with the 1939-40 drought impacts. In 1950 government bought part of the land to build Embakasi Airport (now JKIA).
In 1960 govt bought more land for Lunga Lunga and Donholm Rds. 1966, William Malu, Machakos MP, bought huge chunks of it. Currently it hosts Harambee Sacco, Phase 5, Old Donholm, New Donholm + Phase 8. It has turned into a high-density suburb, hosting the lower middle-income.

19/03/2025

As the year 2019 marks 400 years since the commencement of the transatlantic slave trade, Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo has been sculpting hundreds of faces to represent the men and women who fell victim to slavery.Akoto-Bamfo has placed the sculptures in Ada Foah, which was a major slave market in the 19th century when the region was under British rule.

Akoto-Bamfo says he has borrowed from the ancient Akan tradition of creating portraits of the dead.

Akoto-Bamfo’s aim is to keep Ada Foah’s history alive and start conversations about what happened here.

The sculpted portraits are the ‘enslaved African’ section of the Nkyinkyim (pronounced Cheen – Cheem) installation, a broader take on Ghanaian history.

He said he used to choose his models in the past to portray specific expressions and traits. But now he prefers to use random models so as to sculpt faces from all over Africa because people from all over the continent were enslaved.

Akoto-Bamfo said the installation is evolving and will continue to grow and expand across continents. He’s added more sculptures over the last month.

The project began in 2010. Today he is working on several new pieces for museums in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. One of his pieces already stands in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama.

Akoto-Bamfo believes the best way to remember the ancestors is to respect their descendants.

Reuters

14/03/2025

This's only found in the Sudans (South&North). 🇸🇸🇸🇩

05/03/2025

Sister from South Sudan 🇸🇸

03/03/2025

Why pictures like this don't ever trend 😍😍😍
God bless Africa 🌍 🙏

03/03/2025

How do you call this in your mother tongue?

27/02/2025

Uganda President ,Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his Son -the current Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda People's Defence Forces- Pictured 1970s in Dar es-salam🇺🇬

18/02/2025

How do you call this fruit in your mother tongue.

In Dinka we call it Alangngany/Thaw

06/02/2025

02/02/2025

Beauty In Nature🎈✨❤
South Sudan 🇸🇸
One Love, Africa

28/01/2025

Lopit in Eastern Equatoria - this is identity, history, and power woven into every detail.

📸 Trevor Cole

17/12/2024

In the Bodi Tribe (Ethiopia), the men with the biggest belly are most desired. The greater the abdominal volume, the more attractive they will be. But the preparation for the contest where the fattest is chosen is rather gruesome.

They drink fresh cow blood and fresh cow milk for 3-6 months in a bid to quickly become fat and be crowned the fattest man. During the Kael ceremony, the winner of the contest is measured and receives great fame by the tribe.

Women and girls bring them milk every morning in their quest for big gut glory.

The only prize for the winner is fame and the adulation of his fellow tribesmen. The women take care of the fat men: they give them alcohol, remove the sweat, and sing for them to keep them awake.