Oluwafemi Kehinde

Encyclopedia Britannica notes that the Niger River rises 240km from the Atlantic Ocean, then walks away from it. It heads towards the Sahara, bends south-east through Niger and drops into …

HEIN News reported in 2025 that Michael Armitage’s most expensive painting sold in New York, not in Nairobi, where he was born. On 15 May 2025, Mpeketoni fetched $2.37m at …

The US State Department tells Americans to avoid Burkina Faso. In February 2025, the Fespaco film festival went ahead regardless. Ouagadougou welcomed 13,500 festival-goers from 53 countries, including more than …

Agents who sell Kenya Airways and Air Tanzania will soon work on new software, and neither airline has given them dates. The Kenya Airways Sabre agreement, announced on 22 September …

Africa hosts almost none of the world’s major association congresses, and Ghana now plans to change that with money from a pension fund. The Accra Convention Centre, backed by the …

A Gen Z traveller can now ask an AI assistant to compare destinations, suggest a route, estimate a budget and adapt an itinerary in seconds. The harder question is what …

The first mistake a traveller can make when flying into Africa is to treat “Africa” as one immigration system. It is not. A British traveller heading to Nairobi, an American …

Seychelles finished last. On the 2025 Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), the island nation ranks 54th out of 54 African countries, behind Libya and Sudan, because the index classifies its …

The Maldives held the leading position in the Indian Ocean’s leading beach destination for 11 straight years. African islands have now won it three years running: Seychelles in 2024, Mauritius …

Seven days. That is how long Ethiopia now lets eligible transit passengers stay visa-free, and it explains the country’s AI tourism strategy better than any speech.  Tourism Minister Selamawit Kassa …