Urban Africa is a popular Flickr group that showcases growing urban life in various African cities. There is a tendency to portray African landscape as bare and the focus is primarily on wildlife. This group is a much needed breath of fresh air, showcasing the African metropolis – highlighting modern African culture in urbanized centers. Enjoy.

Africa has untold vital urban spaces and a rich legacy of a 2.000 years long history of urbanization. However, in the vast majority of flickr groups related to Africa, nature and wildlife photography are predominant. Africa appears as a rural and ‘exotic’ scenery where humans, animals and landscapes build a more ore less harmonious unity.

This pool is for photography of African cities and towns. Architecture, parks, people, sculptures, streets, traffic – anything in the urban context.

Cairo, Egypt

Durban, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Bamako, Mali

Kinshasa, Congo

Lome, Togo

Fes, Morocco

Rabat, Morocco

Dakar, Senegal

Maputo, Mozambique

Marrakesh, Morocco

Luanda, Angola

Monrovia, Liberia

Gabrone, Botswana

Harare, Zimbabwe

Nairobi, Kenya

Cotonou, Benin

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Eldoret, Kenya

Maputo, Mozambique

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Alexandria, Egypt

Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire

Abuja, Nigeria

Tamale, Ghana

Accra, Ghana

Khartoum, Sudan

Kampala, Uganda

Algiers, Algeria

Dakar, Senegal

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mombasa, Kenya