Johannesburg’s inner city Yeoville area is one of the centers of South Africa’s massive African immigrant population. Here you’ll find people from Senegal to Somalia, Mali to Mozambique, and many more nationalities. And there is no shortage of soccer fanatics watching the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) currently happening in Gabon.
Cameroon supporters chants ahead of soccer match against Guinea Bissau during the African Cup of Nations Group A soccer match between Cameroon and Guinea Bissau at the Stade de l’Amitie, in Libreville, Gabon, Jan. 18, 2017.
Yeoville’s Rockey Street is a glimpse of pan-Africanism like few others.
Stores selling everything from cassava to cellphones blast kwasa kwasa music. Exhaust fumes blend with smoke from fish and chicken charcoal-grilled on sidewalks by women from Kenya, Liberia and Angola.
Groups sitting on crates converse in French, Portuguese and Swahili.