African Mirror Magazine

Rest in peace
Kofi Annan was born into an aristocratic family in Ghana on April 8, 1938. He attended a number of schools and colleges, studying international relations in the United States and Switzerland, and became an international civil servant working for the United Nations in 1962. He went on to become the U.N. secretary-general and later a special envoy to Syria. Annan died on August 18, 2018 in Switzerland at the age of 80.

Tanzania: Officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Swahili) is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south; and the Indian Ocean to the east. Mountain Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania. The United Republic of Tanzania is the second largest economy in the East African Community and the twelfth largest in Africa.

The Serengeti and Maasai Mara
Many people’s vision of an African safari is the often-promoted Discovery channel scenes in East Africa, in particular the annual wildebeest and zebra migration. This amazing spectacle occurs within the Serengeti and Maasai Mara National Parks – which are only divided by a notional man-made border.
The Tanzanian portion of the park is known as the Serengeti and the Kenyan portion as the Maasai Mara. The migration is a sight to behold, with bleating wildebeest interspersed with more photogenic zebra as far as the eye can see. It is a place you want to be.

ETSU of Nupe
Emir His Royal Highness (Bahagadochi) Alhaji Yahaya Abubaker greets people with the traditional royal gesture. The umbrella is significant as it provides shade to spotlight the Emir, the symbol of authority and the seat of traditional power.

Grace Mugabe became a Lady Macbeth in the Zimbabwean soap opera: She led her ailing and aged husband to make his fatal miscalculation that he could stand in the face of united military opposition. By now she knows better.