Culture & Heritage

Sections of Kairouan’s medina wall have collapsed. UNESCO sent expert missions in May 2024 and January 2025 to plan their restoration. The wall warns of Tunisia’s medinas outside the capital: …

At times during an Egungun Festival, the line between performance and presence becomes hard to maintain. Drums accelerate, a costumed figure spins through the crowd, layers of cloth lift and …

Fifty thousand people were expected at Sekenani Gate on 9 and 10 June 2023, the weekend Narok County picked to launch its first Maasai cultural festival, two days of drumming, …

Ankara never started in Africa. It began as a Dutch attempt to mass-produce Indonesian batik, and it failed in the market it was built for before it found the one …

Ouidah’s beach ends at a door that opens onto nothing. Cross beneath it, and there is only sand, then surf, then open water, the same stretch of the Atlantic that …

Egypt wants 30 million annual visitors by 2028, more than double the 15.78 million recorded in 2024. Reaching that figure means persuading tourists to stay longer and travel further south …

Fassi families do not introduce the Chouara Tannery as a tourist attraction. They call it work passed down through the same hands, using the same stone pits and the same …

A traveller can spend hours driving into Ethiopia’s Lower Omo, arrive at a village, take photographs of people wearing traditional dress, hand over a few birr and leave within minutes. …

A royal throne left Paris in a padded crate in November 2021. It travelled with three totemic statues, four carved palace doors and a set of warrior dance staffs – …

Some cities live in the imagination long before they make it onto the itinerary. You hear about them through music, fashion, food, business and the people who return with stories …