https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/downtownafrica/ Recent content in Downtownafrica on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2020 10:42:45 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-jozi-my-dad-has-been/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 10:42:45 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-10-03-jozi-my-dad-has-been/ <p>#jozi My dad has been posting some of his pics from Hilbrow and Berea in the 1960s when he lived there. This is Hilbrow now. It doesn&rsquo;t look like all that much to people in many places around the world - really just some grubby 50s-70s high-rises. But Johannesburg is unique in Africa for having a true &lsquo;urban jungle.&rsquo; Nowhere else has such a concentration of tall buildings - not Cairo. Not Lagos. It was all built on the gold dug far beneath the Earth by workers treated as less-than second-class citizens sweltering in the darkness.</p>