Oluwafemi Kehinde

Botswana is quietly stepping back from its high-value, low-volume tourism model, the same formula the rest of Africa now studies as a blueprint. In April 2026, Tourism Minister Kagiso Mmolotsi …

In 1975, when apartheid-era South African Airways faced flight bans across mainland Africa, single-runway tarmac on the Cape Verdean island of Sal provided the essential refuelling stop for flights bound …

Djibouti has never had a single site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Not one. Yet the country sits astride the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, one of the busiest shipping corridors on the …

Ask anyone who has booked a flight between two West African capitals what it cost, and the answer usually explains why they haven’t flown that route twice. In December 2025, …

Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of …

The AU Continental Tourism Strategy 2030 began with a single sentence, signed by tourism ministers in Nairobi in October 2018: Africa should become the preferred tourism destination in the world. …

In 1990, the last confirmed cheetah in Malawi vanished from the record entirely—no sighting, no carcass, just an absence where a species had been. Twenty-seven years passed before a cheetah …

A right-hand reef break on Sal’s southern tip breaks for up to four hundred metres over volcanic rock, offshore trade winds holding the face up long enough for an intermediate …

Cross River has handed over its best-known tourism asset for the second time in nine years, and the fine print matters more than the photo call. A 25-year concession only …

Namibia is rebuilding its national airline, and a fresh licence filing just gave the African travel trade the clearest picture yet of where its routes will go.  According to Windhoek …