West Africa

The bowl arrives before you have finished sitting down. It is wide enough to feed four people, its surface broken by two large pieces of grilled thiof – white grouper …

The plane touches down at Kotoka International Airport, and the immigration officer says “Akwaaba” before you hand over your passport. Welcome. For hundreds of thousands of people of African descent …

At five in the morning, the beach at Assinie is still dark, and the Atlantic is already moving. The groundswell has been building since midnight – long, organised lines from …

At the base of a 500-metre sandstone cliff in central Mali, the abandoned dwellings of the Tellem people are embedded in the rock face like wasps’ nests. The Tellem built …

Before dawn on 10 January, the sound of drums reaches the beach at Ouidah from several directions at once. By the time the light comes up, the town has been …

The Atlantic is louder here than you expect. Standing at the edge of Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, with the ocean throwing itself against the pink and ochre …

It is late evening somewhere in Lagos. A charcoal grill glows on a street corner, tended by a man who has been feeding his neighbourhood for thirty years. The smell …

Tourists press together beneath the Door of No Return, an ochre-and-gold arch rising from the beach at Ouidah in southern Benin. Carved into its face are the figures of chained …

The West African archipelago of Cabo Verde recently reinforced its cultural authority on the global stage. According to Travel News Africa, from April 9 to 11, 2026, the capital city …

Ghana’s end-of-year celebrations pull tens of thousands of visitors from across the world every December. The energy is real, the economic impact is measurable, and the cultural draw keeps growing. …