Oluwafemi Kehinde

Nineteenth-century colonial engineers laid railway tracks across sub-Saharan Africa under a single, extractive imperative: transport raw timber and unprocessed minerals from inland mines directly to coastal ports for export, leaving …

A camera the size of a matchbox sits bolted to a marula tree in Tanzania’s Grumeti Reserve, watching a footpath no ranger can watch through the night. When a shape …

Angola earns close to 94% of its export revenue from crude oil, yet tourism has historically contributed an estimated 0.01% to the country’s GDP, according to a 2025 report by …

Ghana has done something most African nations with transatlantic heritage sites have not managed: turned a diplomatic relationship into a costed, five-year rescue plan for its most vulnerable monuments.  According …

Liberia has stopped waiting on foreign loans to rebuild its only international airport. This time, the government wants a private company to pay for the work outright, run the facility …

A one-way ticket from Nairobi to Lagos costs close to $900. A passenger flying from Nairobi to Dubai, a route nearly three times the distance, pays around $675, according to …

In April 2026, a delegation of Egyptian tourism officials stood at the edge of Lake Victoria in Jinja and photographed a stretch of water most of their clients have never …

In October 2025, the United States ordered non-emergency staff to leave its embassy in Bamako. Three months later, in January 2026, it reversed that decision and normalised operations there, citing …

Zimbabwe’s most storied hotel now belongs to a single owner, and that shift could decide who controls the next wave of investment at one of Southern Africa’s busiest tourism gateways. …

Chad just handed Central Africa an aviation security story nobody expected. The country’s effective implementation score for international civil aviation security standards has more than doubled since 2017, and the …