middle classes in africa: photos documenting middle-class life in africa

You never hear much about the middle class in Africa. Most of what you see in international media shows either the obscenely wealthy, or the obscenely poor.

A photographic project by organized by photographer Joan Bardeletti aims to change that by documenting middle-class life in the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Morocco and Cameroon.

[Pictured] Charles Kapié with his partner in the street close to their office. At 30 years old he has created and runs a consulting firm in agronomy and a cyber café. He used to be a civil servant and he invested his “rappel” (first year of salary paid at once) in his activity and resigned after one year. He was paid $400/month. He situate himself in the middle of the Middle Classes.

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