Experience Africa Beyond the Headlines Wherever Africa Is Lived

Curated city guides, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Food, Nightlife, and the Voices Redefining Modern African Life on the Continent and Across the Diaspora.

Where Will You Begin?

Planning your next trip, exploring Culture, or simply following your curiosity? Choose your path and discover Africa across the continent and throughout the global diaspora.

Aso Oke the Prestigious Handwoven Cloth of the Yoruba

Aso Oke means prestigious cloth, and the Yoruba handweave it on their looms into some of West Africa's most luxurious garments, the...

Giraffe Manor, Nairobi

The photographs are accurate. At this 1930s ivy-clad manor in Langata, endangered Rothschild’s giraffes walk out of the morning mist, put their...

Africa Food Show 2026

East Africa's food economy convenes at Nairobi's KICC, 19-21 August - a working trade floor for manufacturers, buyers, and operators, and the...

Ilha do Cabo, Luanda

Luanda keeps its offices on one side of the bay and its evenings on the other. The Ilha do Cabo, the long...

Luanda, the Atlantic City That Insists on Itself

Luanda announces itself with a curve. The Marginal, the bay-front promenade rebuilt in pink-flushed stone and palm, sweeps along the Atlantic like...

Stay Well. Stay Connected.

Experience comfort, culture, and hospitality in every destination. Browse curated accommodations across Africa’s cities and travel regions, carefully selected to enhance your trip and connect you with local character

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Oloololo Escarpment, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Fly-in via Mara airstrips
Angama Mara
From $1850/night
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North Island, Seychelles. Access by helicopter from Mahé
North Island, a Luxury Collection Resort
From $6826/night
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Near Kinigi, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Bisate Lodge
From $2569/night

Top Landmarks. Landscapes. Living Culture.

Discover places that move at different speeds, sacred, social, natural and historic, connecting local landscapes to the wider story of Africa and its diaspora.

What's Happening

Moments worth planning around events, gatherings, and cultural signals across Africa and its global diaspora.

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30 August
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Notting Hill Carnival 2026
Europe's largest street celebration returns to west London on 30-31 August, Panorama on the 29th - a Caribbean diaspora tradition of mas bands, steel pan, and sound systems, rooted and unmistakably its own.
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2 October
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Lake of Stars Malawi Arts Festival 2026
Three days of music and multidisciplinary arts on the shore of Lake Malawi, 2-4 October at Fish Eagle Bay - a festival defined as much by place as by programme.
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15 October
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London 2026
The leading international fair for contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora returns to Somerset House, 15-18 October - one continent, fifty-four countries, in a single frame.
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