As part of a series of year-end posts–we’re taking a break from Friday, December 23, till

The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,

Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images

Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,

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Nice video (Tiro Rose) and photographs (Ference Isaacs) of hip hop dancers from all over Cape

Michael and Dominique, Detroit, Michigan. From Soth’s series “Sleeping by the Mississippi.”

Ghana. Here.

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South African photographer whose “works deal with the tensions related to human sexuality and the relation

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Here. Photo Credit: Cedric Miles.