Can you identify this country from these holiday snaps??

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It’s my dad, on a jolly many years ago, I think very late 70s/early 80s maybe (he died 1982).

When he was diagnosed with terminal cancer he travelled to several countries but I can’t identify these photos.
His girlfriend at the time had family in the West Indies, but these definitely look African scenes.

What do you think? Sometimes just a car reg or street scene can help identify maybe.

Looks like South Africa

Look at that lovely split screen Land Rover 😍😍😍

It reminds me of Zimbabwe or Uganda.

I think you’d have to ask someone to try and identify the number plates.

Can you make out what it says on the bus stop sign behind him, that might hold a clue?

Could be Kenya

Off topic but your dad is such a handsome man in those photos 😍

Sorry you lost him so early.

I was thinking Kenya.

@DesMartinsPetCat

Ah thanks, he was only 38 when he died. I was 13.

My mum had remarried long before then, then I lost my (step) dad when I was 26 too.

I’ll try to enlarge the bus stop sign.

Looks like they drive on the right so west or northern africa (Ex Portuguese or french colonies) a sweeping generalisations but most of southern /eastern africa drive on the right (ex british colonies)

What does the car reg behind him say?

Enlarged the bus stop sign a bit .

I want to say South Africa as that's where I grew up in the 70s and 80s but I don't think it is because it would still have been Apartheid and it looks to me like the photo would be a 'black area'. My reason is that there are no other white faces (sorry I don't mean to cause offence but I don't know how else to describe it). If it was a 'black area' it looks too fancy for that with those gazebos and smart cars. The sad reality is that in those days people were separated according to race and non whites would not have had such luxuries. So glad we don't live in those times.

So my guess after that long ramble is that it's most likely to be Kenya or Uganda.

G is Gabon

Could be Kenya

The number plate isn't an Kenyan one. They are of the form KAA etc.

The could be Kenya part was a quote - sorry bold fail.

I agree with the posts above it does look like they drive on the right!

www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/AF.html

If you have some spare time you will probably find an answer on this site.

Looks like a private vehicle plate from Zambia to me. But there may be other similar ones elsewhere.

@electricwhisk

Thanks! I’ll have a browse on that link

I immediately thought Zambia but have no idea why!

Mocambique or Angola.

Looking at the ethnicity of the children in the photo I would guess at South Africa or Lesotho. My DF travelled a lot in Africa on business during a similar era. The children loved anyone with a camera.

I too thought Zambia. The long dirt road looks like the one from the Capital to Chaminooka Lodge on the outskirts, Also looks like cars driving on same side of road as in UK.

The fact that the sign says "BUS STOP" would suggest that it is a country where English is an official language rather than a former French/Belgian/Portuguese etc colony so that narrows it down a bit.

If the number plate relates to the country he was in at the time, perhaps Equitorial Guinea which has number plates starting with "GQ"? www.cactus2000.de/uk/plate/international.php Lovely photos!