Searching for "swim team" or "swim club" in sub-Saharan Africa has proven fruitless. I tried French, English, Swahili, Yoruba, and Hausa, and got nothing but photos of kids or swimming pools at posh hotels. But there are hundreds of pictures of African bodybuilders, many collected on AfricanMuscle.com.
East Africa first.
1. Burundi, a small, landlocked country plagued by deforestation, soil erosion, and a genocidal war, offers this rather chunky muscleman.
2. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously Zaire, previously the Belgian Congo, is the biggest county in sub-Saharan Africa, with 78 million people, including this smiling bodybuilder with great biceps.
3. The main language of Ethiopia, Amharic, is in the Afro-Asiatic family, related to Arabic, Hebrew, and ancient Egyptian. It has its own distinctive alphabet.
I couldn't find any Ethiopian guys who weren't naked.
4. Ethiopia has one of the lowest rates of cell phone usage in the world, only 2.2 million out of a population of 80 million. Even war-torn Somalia, which has no central government, has a higher rate. So here's an Ethiopian guy taking a nude selfie.
5. Uganda, where world-famous dictator Idi Amin ruled from 1971 to 1979, now has a more stable, although highly homophobic government. Hopefully this bodybuilder in hot pink trunks is more tolerant.
More after the break.
6. Kenya is one of the wealthiest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, which still makes it one of the poorest in the world. But at least these bodybuilders can afford muscle supplements.
7. Tanzania has several tourist attractions, such as the Serengeti National Park and the island of Zanzibar. I don't know why two of these Tanzanian guys are wearing arm casts.
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8. Rwanda, a small, land-locked country known for its ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and the Hutu. It is home to model Jean de Dieu Ntabanganyimana, Mr. Africa 2017, known professionally as Jay Rwanda.
9. South Sudan is a new country, becoming independent in 2011. Its main ethnic groups are the Dinka and the Nuer.
10. The Central African Republic is mostly grassland and gyms.
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8. Rwanda, a small, land-locked country known for its ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and the Hutu. It is home to model Jean de Dieu Ntabanganyimana, Mr. Africa 2017, known professionally as Jay Rwanda.
