Why One Artist Is Playing Toto’s ‘Africa’ On An Endless Loop In The Namib Desert • Discoverology

Why One Artist Is Playing Toto’s ‘Africa’ On An Endless Loop In The Namib Desert

Namibia-born artist Max Siedentopf’s desert art installation plays the ’80s anthem on loop somewhere in Africa’s Namib desert, an arid expanse of sand dunes and gravel planes measuring over 31,000 square miles along the coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.

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