A place to submit your stories of failure in Africa. Rule: you must provide at least ONE alternative idea, or suggestion, on how this could have been a success.

Overload Failure

Posted: April 7th, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: Funny, Picture Fail | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Those who have lived in Africa know this isn’t staged. It might be excessive, but not staged. My suggestion? Hell, I don’t know what to say… maybe make wider roads?

wide load coming through


African School Bus: FAIL

Posted: March 6th, 2009 | Author: Ukwelii | Filed under: Company Fail, Picture Fail | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »

Tinted windows? Really? C’mon…That’s just wrong now.

Mini-Bus? No, More like Mega-FAIL!

This post was submitted by Ukwelii.


Magic Goat Detained for Armed Robbery

Posted: February 22nd, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: Funny, Government Fail, Picture Fail | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

From our friends at the FAILblog:

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“Magic Goat Detained for Armed Robbery: A goat is being held in police custody in Nigeria on suspicion of an attempted robbery of a Mazda 323 car.”


Unnecessarily unnecessary

Posted: January 30th, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: Failure, Funny, Government Fail, Picture Fail | Tags: , , | No Comments »

A (hi)story of bad signage:

“In an effort by the ministry of education to illustrate the concept of redundance to it’s students, the Ghanaian government had signs placed along the roadside. The funny thing is, there really aren’t very many bumps, just holes.”

Road bumps ahead... oh, really?

A couple more.


Why AfriFAIL is needed

Posted: January 30th, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: AfriFAIL, Picture Fail | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »

Too often we sit by and say nothing as failed programs, projects and ideas are launched into and inside Africa. Here’s a chance for you to air your gripes and show us all just how cynically intelligent you are. To anonymously state why you think “project x” is a complete waste of resources, time or is a danger to society.

In most cases, there reasons why groups are doing something is for a good purpose, they are just tragically mislead, ignorant or both. Which is why we apply the “ONE RULE” at AfriFAIL, and that is that you must give one suggestion of how this failure might not have been. A way it could have been a success.

You’re also free to post your funny African fail pictures:

An electric pole planted in the middle of the road, why?

An electric pole planted in the middle of the road, why?

Got one on your mind already? Good, head right over to the submission form and write your post.