This document features entries from the Africa Geographic, Photographer of the Year 2021 competition. It includes over 30 photographs from across Africa showing a variety of landscapes, wildlife, and people. The photos depict elephants, giraffes, zebras, gorillas, hyenas, leopards and more in their natural habitats, as well as portraits of local people and scenes of daily life in African communities.

1. Africa Geographic, Photographer of the Year 2021

2. Africa Geographic, Photographer of the Year 2021: Featured Entries

3. Four giraffe dwarfed by an impressive baobab tree. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania © Fabian Fridholm

4. A bright-eyed baby vervet has to learn to adapt to life in a troop. Kruger National Park, South Africa ©Joschka Voss

5. This ancient desert survivor, a giant Welwitschia mirabilis plant, is adapted to soak in the dew on these misty mornings. Messum Crater, Namibia ©Heste de Beer

6. A trio of zebras strike an accidental pose while waiting for the chance to drink. Tsavo West National Park, Kenya ©Tim Nicklin

7. A dead kokerboom (quiver tree) is lit up by sunlight while in the background a storm approaches, bringing much-needed rain after a long drought in the Richtersveld. Springblokvlakte, South Africa ©Hesté de Beer

8. A group of elephant orphans at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust enjoy a dust bath. Umani Springs, Kenya © Ana Zinger

9. A vigilant female leopard tenderly carries her young cub to the next suitable hiding place. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya ©Derek Howes

10. A silverback mountain gorilla known as Rugendo glances curiously at a group of tourists as he walks by. ©Dale Davis

11. A portrait of a young boy from the Turkana tribe in Kenya © Joe Buergi

12. Local Beninese women use the beach to spread lake grasses into fan-like shapes, drying them out for mat weaving. © Inger Vandyke

13. Led by their herder, a caravan of camels travels across the vast barren landscape. Danakil, Ethiopia © Hesté de Beer

14. A caracal gazes haughtily over its shoulder at its admiring spectators. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Dawie Jacobs

15. A giraffe calf receives a tender bath from its mother shortly after birth. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Thorsten Hanewald

16. Hyena cubs nestled safely against their exhausted mother. Liuwa Plain National park, Zambia © Andrew Macdonald

17. A cheetah uses a termite mound as a vantage point during a downpour. Chobe National Park, Botswana © Dawie Jacobs

18. That quintessential moment on an African safari. Mara North Conservancy, Kenya © John Piper

19. Staff in hand, an Ethiopian elder rests outside his home at sunset. Omo Valley, Ethiopia © Kevin Dooley

20. A portrait of a Mundari cattle herder standing guard amongst his cattle in the South Sudan © Joe Buergi

21. A yellow-billed kite dips into focus as it flies in front of the looming form of an elephant. Chobe National Park, Botswana © Dawie Jacobs

22. Absolute focus from hungry lioness; absolute terror from warthog quarry. Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. © Ana Zinger

23. Wildebeest dotted across the plain, silhouetted against an artistic sky. Liuwa Plain National park, Zambia © Andrew Macdonald

24. A conflagration of Msasa worms. Gurungwe Gap Guruve, Zimbabwe. © Chris Sheppard

25. A leopard is dwarfed by the tree it is using as a vantage point to survey its surroundings. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania ©Kaido Haagen

26. A cheetah cub learning the rudiments of grooming from its mother. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Gonnie Myburgh

27. Thousands of wildebeest brave the currents and crocodiles of the Mara River. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Ana Zinger

28. An inquisitive Palmato gecko – Namib Naukluft National Park, Namibia. © Werner Hoetzel

29. An African jacana takes flight. Chobe River, Botswana © Bruce Staples

30. An orca trawls the chilly waters surrounding Marion Island. © Tavis Dalton

31. An aerial shot of a chaotic fish market in Ganvie, Benin © Inger Vandyke

32. A skinner and cook in Kejetia bushmeat market takes a break from the heat coming off an old Bedford
engine block as the day’s catch is cauterized and cleansed by flame. Kumasi, Ghana © Robin Bruyns

33. An Ethiopian Orthodox priest sits in front of Abuna Yemeta Guh, a church hewn from the
caves some 800-1000 years ago. Hawzen woreda, Tigray region, Ethiopia. © Greg Metro

34. An imposing desert elephant bull stretches to reach the fruit and leaves of an Ana-tree (Faidherbia albida) near the Hoanib River in northern Namibia. ©Hesté de Beer

35. A yellow-billed oxpecker – star of the show. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Quinn Kloppers

36. A diademed sifaka posing with a
somewhat amusing expression.
Andasibe-Mantadia National
Park, Madagascar. © Callum
Lootsma

37. A white rhino cow in the golden South African dust. South Africa. © Darren Donovan

38. A baboon rises to greet the first rays of the sunrise. Nsefu Sector, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia © Marc Mol

39. A dead kokerboom (quiver tree) is lit up by sunlight while in the background a storm approaches, bringing much-needed rain after a long drought in the Richtersveld. Springblokvlakte, South Africa ©Hesté de Beer

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