Awesome Africa

A lesson in humility for all of us: King Jules K Kossigan Samlan fled to Germany from Togo due to political unrest. But instead of kicking back, he uses his extra time to work as a restaurant crew.

Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher is the true story of a former drug-dealing criminal and his extraordinary transformation to become the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children.

A mesmerizing and dizzying POV camera flight through the beautiful coastline, waterfalls, forests, and people of Cameroon, Africa. Courtesy of the MM6 Hexacopter with an on-board camera.

We’re not sure why animals like to make off with or destroy video equipment, but one of these lions to pinch this guys GoPro camera and walk around with it in her mouth while it was recording.

Written and directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Viva Riva!, which swept the 2011 African Academy Awards, is the vibrant tale of a fuel crisis in Congo that ignites a brutal gasoline gangster war.

National Geographic offers a fascinating series of videos that showcase young men from Sudan and their cultural observations of America, as they are introduced to it for the first time. (Thanks Tyler!)