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Cover Shot competition: Week 4′s Top 5 (plus your favourites)

In case you haven’t heard, we’re running a competition to find a cover for our January 2013 issue.  Here are the fourth week’s finalists in our Cover Shot competition – the judges’ Top 5, plus your 5...

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Cover Shot competition: Week 5′s Top 5 (plus your favourites)

In case you haven’t heard, we’re running a competition to find a cover for our January 2013 issue.  Here are the fourth week’s finalists in our Cover Shot competition – the judges’ Top 5, plus your 5...

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Cover Shot competition: Week 7′s Top 5 (plus your favourites)

In case you haven’t heard, we’re running a competition to find a cover for our January 2013 issue.  Here are the seventh week’s finalists in our Cover Shot competition – the judges’ Top 5, plus your 5...

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Cover Shot competition: Week 8′s Top 5 (plus your favourites)

In case you haven’t heard, we’re running a competition to find a cover for our January 2013 issue. Here are week 8′s finalists in our Cover Shot competition – the judges’ Top 5, plus your 5 ‘most...

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How Do You Want to Get Your AG Mag?

How would you like to get and read your copies of Africa Geographic?  Retail or subscription? Print or digital? Desktop, laptop or tablet? Africa Geographic magazine, September 2012 Africa Geographic...

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The Lion, Hyena and the Tragedy of the Baby Giraffe

By Jemima Middleton I have always been told that after the rains, the bush erupts in a frenzy of territory-marking and reclamation of domains, as the storms wash away all previous signs of ownership...

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Win pre-release Africa Geographic headgear!

Subscribe to our free newsletter and you could win with Africa Geographic! You could be one of ten lucky subscribers to walk away with a clothing set consisting of both a beanie and a cap.

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Facebook challenge: interact with our logo!

Crop your picture so that your animal sits on/jumps off/stalks or licks our logo and your image could be featured on the Africa Geographic Facebook page!

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Pictures of the Month – December 2013

Here are the top five pictures for our Picture of the Month December 2013 competition as voted by our Facebook and Google+ fans.

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Africa Geographic’s big move

Africa Geographic has dropped its monthly print magazine for a weekly online magazine (free to view) and annual print edition.

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Top 10 Picture of the Day entries – April 2012

Here’s our editor’s selection of the top 10 picture of the day entries from April 2012.  [slickr-flickr tag="agreaderspicsland" captions="on" descriptions="on"] Submit your own best African wildlife...

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Top 10 Picture of the Day entries – May 2012

Here’s our editors’s selection of the top 10 best picture of the day entries from May 2012: [slickr-flickr tag="agreaderspicsmay" captions="on" descriptions="on"] Submit your own best African wildlife...

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Camera modes: shutter priority, aperture priority or…programme mode?

Probably the single question I’m asked most by people keen to improve their photography is “How do I move on from using the Program or Auto mode on my camera”; “What settings should I use”. Wildlife...

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Danakil Desert: The Cruelest Place on Earth!

I have glimpsed the apocalypse. The overweight Magi, Al Gore foretold of it. And he has been vindicated. And forgiven for eating so many pies. Here, Gaia is in rebellion. All bets are off. The ground...

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Top 10 Picture of the Day entries – June 2012

Here’s our editor’s selection of the top ten picture of the day entries from June 2012: [slickr-flickr tag="toptenjune" captions="on" descriptions="on"] Submit your own best African wildlife image!...

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Africa Geographic Cover Shot competition!

Calling all photographers! Enter our Cover Shot competition and your photograph could be on the cover of Africa Geographic’s January 2013 issue! Have you ever looked at the cover of Africa Geographic...

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Meet the bone collectors: Tim Jackson chats to African dinosaur specialists

Africa Geographic’s scientific editor, Tim Jackson, is fascinated by Africa’s dinosaurs and recently asked some of the world’s leading dinosaur palaeontologists – bone-collectors to you and me – what...

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Myths about manta rays

Africa Geographic’s scientific editor, Tim Jackson, catches up with Andrea Marshall, director of the Marine Megafauna Association in Mozambique, and asks her about the top five myths that loads of...

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Team Africa Geographic Skydives for Rhinos

Between July and September, 448 ordinary South Africans will leap from 10 000 feet to raise funds for rhino anti-poaching work – and make a sky-high statement that South Africans want the decimation...

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Caption Competition 4

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic scarf. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Etienne Oosthuizen. Send your caption(s) to...

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Gravity Adventure Festival

Every year, daring people from all over South Africa congregate round the Palmiet River in Kleinmond for the Gravity Adventure Festival, ready to compete in some of the most spectacular and grueling...

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Caption competition 5

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic scarf. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Cathy Withers-Clarke. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption Competition 6

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Sally Mackay. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 7

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Nobby Clarke. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 8

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Sally Mackay. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 9

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Nobby Clarke. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 10

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Nobby Clarke. Send your caption(s) to...

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Let me ask you a question…

When you read the first line of a travel story about Africa, does your mind wander to fond trips of your own? Can you feel the salty wind on your face when you look at an image of a deserted… Read more...

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Caption competition 11

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Stan Blumberg. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 12

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Jim Griggs. Send your caption(s) to...

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Caption competition 13

Submit a caption and you could win an Africa Geographic peak cap. Send us a caption for the picture below and the wittiest entry will win the prize. Image by Anthony Goldman. Send your caption(s) to...

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The Congo Chronicles: A Question of Relativity

 ‘I don‘t like work, no one does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself’. – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness I arrived back in Yengo after 6 days on the road with a total… Read...

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THE MARA – MUCH MORE THAN JUST WILDEBEEST

In September last year I had a week in the Masai Mara at the height of the migration. To be constantly in the midst of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest was an experience beyond adequate description....

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10 things I love about Africa

A few weeks ago I had to sit down and write my first editorial of the new year for Africa Geographic. COP17 had just wound up with the same old pseudo commitment on the part of some countries and...

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My City Safari Competition: winning entry

Congratulations to Claire Campbell, whose photo of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River in India was chosen as the winning entry for our My City Safari competition.  Claire took this photo while...

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Win an Africa Geographic beanie and cap.

Answer two questions correctly from the AG online magazine, Hunting with the Hadza, and stand a chance to win! Read more › The post Win an Africa Geographic beanie and cap. appeared first on Africa...

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A Madikwe photo safari with Africa Geographic

Africa Geographic Travel's photographic safari to Madikwe Game Reserve with Francois van Heerden was a great success! Read more › The post A Madikwe photo safari with Africa Geographic appeared first...

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5 tips for taking photos that people love to share

To help you on your way to possibly becoming Africa Geographic's Photographer of the Year for 2015, here are 5 tips on how to take images that people will love to share. Read more › The post 5 tips for...

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An unbelievable art safari

Incredible sightings and learn to sketch wildlife on Africa Geographic's Art Safari. Read more › The post An unbelievable art safari appeared first on Africa Geographic.

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Africa Geographic visits Tintswalo Atlantic

When the Africa Geographic team was invited to toast the new Tintswalo Atlantic one Friday afternoon we couldn't pass down the opportunity! Read more › The post Africa Geographic visits Tintswalo...

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