Southern Africa

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 …

A 210.3% increase in arrivals from a single country is not a tourism statistic. It is an alarm bell. When Malawi was reported as the fastest-growing source market for Eswatini …