Currently, Africa is known as one of the world's hotbeds. One would almost forget that it is a huge continent that has a different aspect from war to it. Robert Lyons (1945) shows us another Africa than we are used to, an angle that shows tranquillity and beauty. He visited a great number of African countries, including Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Ethiopia, where he photographed everyday life. He supplies the viewer with an image that confronts the Western stereotype. Besides the continent's complexity, diversity and human dimension, the ordinary and the exotic can also be seen in these colourful photographs. Lyons sees his photographs as a personal investiga-tion into the instinctive and formal interests with regard to the creation of the image of this part of the world. They show neither crisis nor confrontation, but everyday life in an Africa that we are not familiar with.