Africa the Beautiful: Wandering through Zim and ZA

by Michelle . · 2009-01-02 19:01:00 UTC
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This is the Stop Genocide blog (as you clearly know, from the banner and the skulls at the top), and the subject matter is accordingly of a consistently dark and sorted nature. And the posts are pretty consistently about countries in Africa. However, I by no means intend to represent the continent as a chronic and pervasive borderless basketcase---it's just that the more positive stories, of which there are far more than the bad, are outside of my focus here. In order to do a teeny tiny bit of self-redemption (at least in my own mind), particularly for my use of images (which is also just something that comes with the territory), I like to occasionally post pictures that show that, in fact, African countries are astonishingly beautiful, incredibly diverse, and not overrun by militia men piled into pick-up trucks.

In this installment of "Africa the Beautiful," the photos were taken by your truly.

Ostriches at the Cape of Good Hope:

Lion's Head and the still-under-construction Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town, as seen from a boat in Table Bay:

Follow the link for Zimbabwe and Nelson Mandela.

Zimbabwe's famous Chiremba Balancing Rocks (the first one is on Zim paper currency, the second is called the Flying Boat Formation):

An enormous statue of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa:

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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