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Winston Churchill called Uganda the “Pearl of Africa” in 1908. Over a century later, the name still fits, even now arguably more than ever. Uganda sits at the equatorial heart …

The door is not the first thing you see when you arrive at a Swahili stone house. The door is the first thing you are meant to see. In Lamu, …

West Africa has over 4,000 miles of Atlantic coastline. It contains some of the world’s most underdeveloped, least photographed, and most genuinely spectacular beaches. And for most of the past …

The brass casters of Benin City did not work in the dark. They worked in daylight, in open workshops in the royal quarter, under the authority of the Igun Eronmwon …

Few places on earth press their weight on your chest the way ancient Axum does. Stand inside the Northern Stelae Park in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, and the …

Tunisia sits at the crossroads of three continents. To the north, the Mediterranean glitters. To the south, the Sahara spreads without apology. Between those two extremes lies a country that …

Stand in the Djemaa el-Fna square in Marrakech at dusk, and you are standing in one of the most photographed public spaces on earth. Storytellers work the crowd in Darija. …

In early 2026, Artsy named Lagos one of the seven must-visit art destinations in the world. In the same year, the US State Department upgraded Nigeria’s travel advisory to Level …

Two islands. One equator. Zero crowds. That is Sao Tome and Principe, a two-island archipelago straddling the Gulf of Guinea that has somehow stayed off the radar of mass tourism …

In 2020, Cote d’Ivoire’s tourism sector collapsed. Turnover in the tourism and leisure industry fell by 73%, according to a study by FNIH-CI, the country’s national federation for tourism and …