A child Awareness Campaign at a primary school in Khayelitsha. A Theatre group, sponsored by the NGO the Simelela Centre - a one-stop 24/7 Rape Centre - performs a puppet show in the local Xhosa language to warn of the dangers of friendly approaches by older people – be they a family friend or even relative. …
George Philipas
Zambian Elections. 2011 A Patriotic Front supporter in the capital Lusaka holding placards near Soweto Market protesting at the delays in announcing the results of the poll. He is holding his forefinger to his mouth symbolising the Opposition party's main slogan 'Don't Kubeba' meaning 'Don't Tell'. Following allegations that the incumbent party had been trying…
Muna Mohamed Ahmed, 18 years old talks incessantly after her recent arrival patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Hospital. She has been diagnosed with mania. A week before being admitted she started suffering from insomnia, continuous and incomprehensible speech and started singing and dancing at inappropriate times. She also began to use abusive language…
Ugandan soldiers (top right) relaxing in a bombed-out structure at the Uruba hotel AMISOM base. Mogadishu, Somalia. 2011
Ugandan soldiers sitting and relaxing in the work-out area at the Uruba Hotel AMISOM base. Mogadishu, Somalia. 2011
A bullet mark in the reinforced bullet-proof window of a Casper-armoured vehicle. In March 2007, the African…
Nowhere else in the world is the divide between all that is positive and negative with the urban human experience so harshly exposed as it is in the African city space. As cities have continued to expand at an alarming rate that sees no sign of slowing any time soon, governments and local authorities have…
Kim I was sexually abused and raped at a very young age by someone I loved and adored. My whole world fell apart and the only way I knew how to deal with what was happening to me was to push it as far away in my mind as I could. In my early thirty's…
Elbilenle, a village 20km south of Burco in Togdheer Province. It has not rained for nearly 2 years. All the livestock had to be moved nearly 100km away by lorry and at great expense to keep them alive. Evidence of those that didn't make it litter the plains near the village. The villagers claim…
Orthodox Easter Church service in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Perched 2630 metres high in the Lasta mountains was once the capital of most of what is now Ethiopia over 700 years ago and was the seat of power of the Zagwe Dynasty. This line of rulers are said to have brought stability to the country after a…
A youth at a road block set up just south east of Nairobi on Juja Rd during the 3-day riots that rocked the country in January 2008. The 3-day rallies were called by the Opposition leader Raila Odinga in protest at the disputed December 2007 election. Nariobi, Kenya. 2008.
A youth taunting the GSU from a distance…
A boy in Mandera, Northern Kenya immediately following flooding in the region. Mandera, Kenya 2006
A mother and son at a Government-run hospital in Mandera, Northern Kenya. 2006
Three boys sitting and relaxing at an orphanage in Sagam, Western Kenya. 2005
A model being prepared by a make-up artist before a runway fashion show. …