Africa Tourism News World Travel Awards Africa 2026: Zanzibar Sweeps The Board, Nigeria Takes One Trophy by Oluwafemi Kehinde 18 hours ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 18 hours ago 46 views Tanzania and its semi-autonomous islands carried home a wide slate of continental titles at World Travel Awards Africa 2026, the region’s biggest tourism honours night. Nigeria carried home one. That … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Airline News Guinée Atlantique Airlines: Guinea’s Fifth Attempt at a National Carrier Since 2002 by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 days ago 70 views Guinea just handed itself a fifth shot at a national airline, and this time the stakes lie within a $200 billion economic plan rather than at a press conference. On … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife South Africa’s Private Game Reserve Ownership: Who Really Owns the Land Behind the Big Five? by Oluwafemi Kehinde 5 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 5 days ago 91 views A single lease payment says more about power over South Africa’s most expensive wilderness than any glossy safari brochure. Since March 2016, MalaMala Game Reserve has paid an annual fee … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Omo Valley Tribes, Territory and the Fight for Ethical Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 6 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 6 days ago 88 views A traveller can spend hours driving into Ethiopia’s Lower Omo, arrive at a village, take photographs of people wearing traditional dress, hand over a few birr and leave within minutes. … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Africa Tourism News Angola’s Tourism Diversification: Measuring Ambition Against Arrival by Oluwafemi Kehinde 7 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 7 days ago 113 views Angola’s government spent June and August 2026 filling Luanda’s conference halls: first the Global Tourism Forum’s investment summit, then FIN Summit’s finance and business gathering. Officials called both proof that … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Hospitality Marriott’s First Flagship Lands in Uganda: Inside Kampala’s $1.6bn Tourism Bet by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago 119 views Uganda’s tourism sector earned $1.62 billion in 2025. Until 27 August 2026, the country still had no Marriott-branded flagship hotel. This gap left Kampala trailing Kigali and Nairobi in the … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife Eswatini Cheetah Reintroduction: Four Cats, 35 Years, One High-Stakes Bet on Safari Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 136 views Eswatini has just handed African safari operators a genuinely new story to sell. The Eswatini cheetah reintroduction has put four cats back into the Kingdom’s bush, 35 years after the … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Cultural Expeditions The Repatriation Movement 2.0: Which European Museums Are Next After Nigeria and Benin by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 128 views On 9 November 2025, around twenty men armed with wooden bats stormed a preview event at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, forcing ambassadors and donors … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Africa Tourism News Mozambique’s Coastal Reconstruction: Where Tourism Investment Is Landing After the Storms by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 133 views In March 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy hovered over the Mozambique Channel for 35 days, making landfall twice and inflicting $1.53 billion in structural damage across ten provinces, according to a … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife Rwanda–DRC Border Tourism: Can Peace Talks Unlock a Joint Gorilla Trekking Corridor? by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 161 views Four hundred metres. That is roughly the distance from the last ranger post inside Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park to the boundary marker of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail