Africa in Pictures

On BBC Africa there is a page called 'Africa in Pictures' where BBC tries to soften up (I guess the cynics would say) or nuance images of Africa. Once also connected to a site called 'Why I love Africa' (which made someone make a site called 'Why I hate Why I love Africa'). Africa is serious business, but Africa is not just poverty, child soldiers, starvation and people dying from AIDS. Unfortunately those are often the images people in the West have of Africa as those are the things we are shown in the media. We tend to forget that Africans have a life in between all this, and do normal things as we do in the West. I like to challenge this stereotype without forgetting the seriousness.

See for yourself - take a break and have a look here. This weeks' topic is relaxation, and a some of my photos from northern Uganda are included.