Africa Tourism News How the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol Is Quietly Transforming West African Tourism Investment by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago written by Familugba Victor Ivory Coast’s tourism ministry put a number on its ambition in 2024: $1 billion, committed to rebuilding the country’s hospitality sector from the ground up. Senegal, Benin, Cameroon and Guinea … Continue Reading 3 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Hospitality Marriott’s First Flagship Lands in Uganda: Inside Kampala’s $1.6bn Tourism Bet by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde Uganda’s tourism sector earned $1.62 billion in 2025. Until 27 August 2026, the country still had no Marriott-branded flagship hotel. This gap left Kampala trailing Kigali and Nairobi in the … Continue Reading 3 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Airline News Historic Talks Begin for First Direct Air Route Between Botswana and Lesotho by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago written by Familugba Victor Two Southern African capitals sit roughly 400 kilometres apart, yet no aircraft flies directly between them. Botswana and Lesotho are now negotiating to close that gap, and the outcome tests … Continue Reading 3 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife Eswatini Cheetah Reintroduction: Four Cats, 35 Years, One High-Stakes Bet on Safari Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde Eswatini has just handed African safari operators a genuinely new story to sell. The Eswatini cheetah reintroduction has put four cats back into the Kingdom’s bush, 35 years after the … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Africa Tourism News Angola Opens Record-Breaking Luanda Convention Centre in Push for African Business Tourism by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago written by Familugba Victor Three years ago, the ground beneath Angola’s newest landmark was ocean. On 24 August 2026, President João Lourenço cut the ribbon on the Palácio de Convenções de Luanda, a 3,000-seat … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Cultural Expeditions The Repatriation Movement 2.0: Which European Museums Are Next After Nigeria and Benin by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde On 9 November 2025, around twenty men armed with wooden bats stormed a preview event at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, forcing ambassadors and donors … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Adventure Tourism Burkina Faso’s Sindou Peaks: Africa’s Most Photogenic Landscape Nobody Talks About by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago written by Familugba Victor The peaks sit in Burkina Faso‘s Cascades Region, roughly 50 kilometres west of Banfora, where narrow sandstone fins and needle-shaped spires rise about 415 metres above sea level along a … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Africa Tourism News Mozambique’s Coastal Reconstruction: Where Tourism Investment Is Landing After the Storms by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde In March 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy hovered over the Mozambique Channel for 35 days, making landfall twice and inflicting $1.53 billion in structural damage across ten provinces, according to a … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Africa Tourism News Togo’s Koutammakou: The Forgotten UNESCO Landscape Reshaping West African Heritage Tourism by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago written by Familugba Victor A two-storey mud tower with a rounded granary sitting on top like a helmet is not a folly. It is a home, a fortress, a temple and a farm building, … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife Rwanda–DRC Border Tourism: Can Peace Talks Unlock a Joint Gorilla Trekking Corridor? by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde Four hundred metres. That is roughly the distance from the last ranger post inside Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park to the boundary marker of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic … Continue Reading 4 weeks ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail