Southern Africa

Southern Africa tourism investment is attracting serious global money, but the region risks squandering its momentum by putting too many eggs in one basket. At the Africa Tourism Investment Conference …

You hear it before you see it. From a kilometre away, the sound arrives as a low, continuous thunder that sits beneath every other sound in the landscape. Then the …

South African tourism is on a historic run. The country welcomed 10.48 million foreign visitors in 2025, a figure that beats pre-pandemic levels and marks a 17.6% increase over 2024. …

The government censored books about it. Archaeologists who told the truth about it were fired. And for nearly a century, an entire colonial administration insisted that Africans could not have …

The Busanga Plains open before you at sunrise, and the scale stops conversation. Red lechwe leap through shallow water. A lion pride moves through the mist at the far edge …

At 21:00 the night before, the Maoma royal drums begin. Their sound crosses the floodplain in the dark, carrying for up to fifteen kilometres across the Zambezi’s risen waters. It …

only sounds are wind, the distant percussion of hooves, and the occasional whoop of a hyena working the edge of the plain. Then, in November, the wildebeest arrive. Tens of …

The Maoma drums begin before dawn. Their sound carries fifteen kilometres across the floodwater: not a warning, but a summons. By morning, hundreds of paddlers have assembled at Lealui Palace. …

Tickets have sold out for fourteen consecutive years. The BBC has named it the top African festival. CNN lists it among the seven African music festivals you genuinely have to …

Most destinations ask you to choose between good weather and interesting things to do. Eswatini does not have that problem. The Kingdom’s calendar is dense with events across all twelve …