Adventures

The door is not the first thing you see when you arrive at a Swahili stone house. The door is the first thing you are meant to see. In Lamu, …

West Africa has over 4,000 miles of Atlantic coastline. It contains some of the world’s most underdeveloped, least photographed, and most genuinely spectacular beaches. And for most of the past …

The brass casters of Benin City did not work in the dark. They worked in daylight, in open workshops in the royal quarter, under the authority of the Igun Eronmwon …

Stand on the rim of the Blyde River Canyon in Limpopo Province. The canyon drops 800 metres to the Treur and Blyde rivers below, a landscape of red and brown …

Few places on earth press their weight on your chest the way ancient Axum does. Stand inside the Northern Stelae Park in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, and the …

Deep inside one of Africa’s most extraordinary wilderness systems, the luxury lodges of the Okavango Delta have rewritten the rules of high-end travel. These are not simply places to sleep …

Kenya’s safari sector generated KSh 460 billion, approximately $3.5 billion, in tourism revenue in 2024, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. Of that total, 75% came from wildlife-based tourism. The …

Tunisia sits at the crossroads of three continents. To the north, the Mediterranean glitters. To the south, the Sahara spreads without apology. Between those two extremes lies a country that …

Stand in the Djemaa el-Fna square in Marrakech at dusk, and you are standing in one of the most photographed public spaces on earth. Storytellers work the crowd in Darija. …

In early 2026, Artsy named Lagos one of the seven must-visit art destinations in the world. In the same year, the US State Department upgraded Nigeria’s travel advisory to Level …