Familugba Victor

Three years ago, the ground beneath Angola’s newest landmark was ocean. On 24 August 2026, President João Lourenço cut the ribbon on the Palácio de Convenções de Luanda, a 3,000-seat …

The peaks sit in Burkina Faso‘s Cascades Region, roughly 50 kilometres west of Banfora, where narrow sandstone fins and needle-shaped spires rise about 415 metres above sea level along a …

A two-storey mud tower with a rounded granary sitting on top like a helmet is not a folly. It is a home, a fortress, a temple and a farm building, …

The skier arrives expecting Africa to look nothing like a winter holiday. Then the temperature drops to minus 8°C, the Maluti Mountains turn white, and a ski instructor points towards …

Rwanda may eventually ask tourists to go underground for a different reason: not to see minerals being extracted, but to understand how the country extracted them. Mining operators are now …

For years, a traveller moving between Northern Nigeria and much of Francophone West Africa has had to think in terms of connections rather than proximity. ASKY Airlines is now changing …

In 1995, fewer than 25 desert-adapted lions survived in north-west Namibia, and the country’s elephant population had fallen to roughly 7,000. Black rhinos clung to a shrinking corner of Etosha …

Ten thousand people packed Cape Town’s Greenmarket Square on the free opening night of the 2026 International Jazz Festival. By the time the closing set ended the following evening, the …

Every 10 February, a small crowd gathers among the graves of Kinshasa’s Gombe cemetery. They arrive in three-piece suits, silk cravats and leather brogues, and they climb onto the tombstones …

Zambia’s aviation regulator just digitised its safety reporting system, a seemingly routine tech upgrade that carries massive weight for the country’s skies. After drawing a record 2.2 million international visitors …