Tourism

Every year, Africa sends roughly $7 billion out of the continent so its citizens can get treated somewhere else  more than 300,000 of them fly to India alone in search …

Across the continent, from Khoisan click-language immersion camps in the Northern Cape to Yoruba tonal academies in Southwestern Nigeria, language learning is shifting from academic archives into active travel itineraries. …

In April 2025, Sierra Leone earned its first UNESCO World Heritage listing, not for a colonial fort or a diamond mine, but for a rainforest that runs straight into Liberia’s …

Every December, something remarkable happens in Lagos. The city’s population swells. Flights from London, Houston, Toronto, and New York fill up weeks in advance. Hotel rooms vanish. And across the …

Sprawling across the northeastern reaches of the Great Rift Valley, the Afar Region of Ethiopia is a geographical and historical marvel unlike any other on Earth. It is not merely …

On 1 November 2025, the Grand Egyptian Museum opened its doors to 39 heads of state and dozens of global dignitaries. The event was twenty years in the making. The …

There is no flight route from Kinshasa to Lagos. The two cities are roughly the same distance apart as Paris and Madrid. A Paris-to-Madrid flight takes two hours and costs …

The door has a name. Ghana renamed it in 2019. What was once called the Door of No Return, the opening in Cape Coast Castle’s thick stone walls through which …

Stand at the Door of No Return on Goree Island and watch the Atlantic. The door faces west. Ships once left through it carrying people who would never see this …

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 …