Breathtaking floating villages in Africa that are worth visiting [Photos]

The militaries of this world have a basic mandate to protect nations and its people on land, in the air and on the sea. If by this wisdom, man has moved from merely living on land to the air (with the upsurge of skyscrapers), then there must surely be good enough reasons to have people residing on the water as well.

Stilt communities! Yes, that is how man has innovated living on water and while this is not the only way people have been able to build places of abode on water, these villages or communities have usually attracted a lot of tourists to them.

Tourists are also attracted to these communities because of how long they have existed, the way(s) of its people and its uniqueness amidst the several challenges that could hinder such an ‘unusual’ way of human habitation.

There is pretty much no livestock in places like these but here in these Africa’s stilts on villages, you will be exposed to some very interesting details – details you never knew about them.

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Etsey Atisu

Etsey Atisu prefers to be called a born writer, before anything else. He is a trained journalist, a consultant and a blogger. He is passionate about writing right and that fuels his desires to tell contemporary African stories from the angle of the African. He is avid about reading. He is also an author of a relationship-themed book, Epistles To My Bubune, which catalogues the sentiments of a prospective husband, writing to his prospective wife, concerning basically all that he hopes to see in their future marriage.

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