The document provides descriptions of photographs submitted for the Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018 competition. It describes landscapes, wildlife, and people from locations across Africa, including Ghana, Namibia, Madagascar, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Chad, Zimbabwe, Algeria, and Congo. The photographs capture African scenery, animals in their natural habitats, indigenous peoples, and cultural traditions.

2. Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018

3. A group of children playing with balloons for the first time in their lives, Bibiani, Ghana © Karel Haal

4. Aerial view of the hypnotic sand dunes, Sossusvlei, Namibia © Julie Rathbone

5. Grandidier's baobabs near Morondava, Madagascar © Gerrie Rall

6. A gasflame nudibranch in False Bay, Cape Peninsula, South Africa © Peet J. van Eeden

7. An African jacana looking for a morsel of food in a water lily bloom on Lake Panic, Kruger National Park, South Africa © Michael de Nysschen

8. A Madagascar sparrowhawk, Masoala, Madagascar © Deborah Jordan

9. 'The city in the wild' in Nairobi National Park, Kenya © Paras Chandaria

10. A boy from the Suri tribe having his face painted in Kibish, Southwestern Ethiopia © Susan Greeff

11. Guelta d'Archei, Ennedi Plateau, Chad © Sepp Friedhuber

12. 'Headbanger' – Ndutu, Tanzania © Thorsten Hanewald

13. 'Buffalo dust' in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe © Andrea Galli

14. 'Unleashed fury' in Kenya © Dana Kennedy

15. 'Don't worry mom' – Kruger National Park, South Africa © Annemarie du Plessis

16. 'Rain brothers' in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Shivang Mehta

17. Pygmy woman near Kahunzi Biega National Park, Congo © Sepp Friedhuber

18. Morning beauty ritual in Epupa, Otjozondjupa, Namibia © Ben McRae

19. Starry night with heated seats' in Desolation Valley along the Huab River, Namibia © Denis Roschlau

20. Southern ground-hornbills eating owl chicks. The owls were nesting on a hamerkop nest. Kruger National Park, South Africa © Liesl Strydom

21. 'Hand' a young baboon plays on the Lower Sabie bridge in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Gabriella Kiss

22. 'Home-Bouquet' – Southern masked weaver's intricate nest, Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, Gauteng, South Africa © Deborah Jordan

23. 'Cheetah and the tree' in Karongwe Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Cal Butler

24. A curious chameleon on the road in Tanzania © Darryn Haltmann

25. 'Tall, dark strangers' in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Andy Howe

26. A Suri Boy adorned with body paint and flower headdress in Kibish, South-West Ethiopia © Susan Greeff

27. Portrait of a nomad girl, Chad © Inger Vandyke

28. The Hoggar Mountains, Algeria © Sepp Friedhuber

29. Celebrating the wide open spaces of Africa in the shadow of Mount Ololokwe, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya © Jorien Schuurmans

30. 'King of the castle' – Serengeti, Tanzania © Thorsten Hanewald

31. 'Evil-looking hyena' – Mana Pools, Zimbabwe © Subramanian Sridharan

32. Cape vulture taking off at Giants Castle in Drakensberg, South Africa © Annette Heymans

33. A white-fronted brown lemur resting with her baby in the early morning, Masoala National Park rainforest, Madagascar © Deborah Jordan

34. 'The beauty' – a little bee-eater in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Bjørnar Valstad

35. An oxpecker on a zebra in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa © Charmaine Bode

36. 'The artful maze' – A herd of Zebras were standing together in random formation, Etosha National Park, Namibia © Shishir Kumar Jain

37. A malachite kingfisher on the banks of the Kariega River at Sibuya Game Reserve, South Africa © Jean Goldstone

38. A black and white view of the the Blue Nile Falls in Ethiopia © Greg Metro

39. A Maasai woman in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Pal Teravagimov

40. Karo girls from the Karo Tribe painting each other's faces, Omo Valley, Ethiopia © Susan Greeff

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Music: Wasis Diop Feat Lena Fiagbe-African Dream