Backseat yarns about the life of a Lagos runs girl. Wazobia FM threw back Christopher Nusa Ohenhen’s hit song “Dupey” on the car radio as Afo drove around the tarnished roads of mainland Lagos. The rhythmic sound of the old school instrumentals boomed softly from the car speakers and Afo […]
Sometimes no is not enough even when it is said firmly Sometimes no is not enough especially when a broken man holds a knife to your throat not when he uses the knife from YOUR kitchen to threaten you into undressing fearfully in. your. own. house Sometimes no is not […]
I have always been enthused by the idea of pulling moments of life and saving them in the form of photos, but travelling, across the length and breadth of Ghana has taught me to draw out the candid stories which lie behind these faces I meet every day. Ernest Ankomah. […]
A growing concern for the environment is apt because currently, it stands in our faces, no citizen of the world can say they are uninformed about waste or of the impending plastic doom in today’s society. The planet is warming and the repercussions are not subtle. Nature is crying out, […]
I remember falling into the gutter when I was seven. Returned home soaked and smelly, dripped in dirt. Told mama the neighborhood dog chased me, And I was sorry I lost the bread she sent me. It is ok, she said: You’ll buy plenty of bread for me one day I […]
Colours are an essential part of the composition in photography and there is a real lack of understanding when it comes to colour. Generally, people don’t realize how important it is and it seems to be the case even with some of the more experienced visual artists out there in […]
One day 14-year-old Nigerian-Indonesian Marylin Igboke stumbles on her father’s extensive photography archive while searching through his old computer hard drives, on realizing the importance of his documentations she decides to retouch the photos and share them because, according to her, her father, Jotham Odefa Igboke, is an accidental photographer […]
Welcome to Mufakose, one of Harare’s oldest suburbs. There anything goes. Popularly known as “Mufombi” this replete suburbia between Marimba and Crowborough North residential areas is home to thousands of the capital’s population. The city was first called Salisbury, the capital of the country that was then called Rhodesia. In […]
Some anthropologists believe the Yoruba religion has been practised as far back as eight thousand years making it truly primal and aboriginal – to put this into perspective Christianity has said to be around for only two thousand years. The Yoruba indigenous beliefs see the world as a product of […]
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories and we reached out to frequent travellers around the African continent and asked them to share a series of photos that represent a memory about a place they visited, currently or in the past, attached with a story that led […]
