Oluwafemi Kehinde

Pick up a standard African travel brochure, and you will find the same names rotating: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco. Cameroon rarely appears. That is not because it lacks something …

There is a strip of coastline in southern Africa so hostile that Portuguese sailors once called it the “Gates of Hell.” Locals went further, naming it the land God made …

Before Zimbabwe was a country, it was already a civilisation. Long before any European boot touched southern African soil, a society of Bantu-speaking people called the Shona raised an extraordinary …

Qatar Airways is going all in on Southern Africa. From 16 June 2026, the Doha-based carrier will roll out sweeping increases in frequency across five cities: Cape Town, Durban, Maputo, …

On May 18, 2026, Togo made a clean break from the status quo. The country’s Ministry of Security announced that all African nationals holding a valid passport can now enter …

When the world thinks of hotel brands operating across West Africa, names like Radisson, Marriott, and Accor tend to come up first. But one chain, built entirely from the continent …

They live among lions, raise their children on cattle blood and milk, and have held the same ground for centuries under the most dramatic sky on earth. The Maasai people …

Winston Churchill called Uganda the “Pearl of Africa” in 1908. Over a century later, the name still fits, even now arguably more than ever. Uganda sits at the equatorial heart …

Nigeria welcomed a landmark new carrier on May 11, 2026, when Binani Air launched scheduled commercial operations on the Abuja-Lagos corridor, flying Embraer E170 regional jets. The launch adds capacity …

When the Middle East erupted in renewed conflict in late February 2026, airlines scrambled. Airspace closed. Fuel costs spiked. Insurance premiums climbed. Yet something unexpected followed: Africa’s skies stayed open …