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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.

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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.

Kente the Cloth That Speaks Without a Tongue

Born where a spider's web met an Asante loom near Bonwire, Kente is cloth that speaks without a tongue, its gold for...

&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge

&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge sits inside the NamibRand Nature Reserve, one of Southern Africa’s largest private reserves, on the edge of a...

Cairo International Film Festival 2026

One of the oldest accredited film festivals in Africa and the Arab world returns 11-20 November - the point where African, Arab...

Zone 4, Marcory

When the Plateau empties at dusk, its day’s business does not end; it crosses the lagoon and changes clothes. Zone 4, the...

Windhoek, the City That Holds Its Breath Between Two Mountains

There is a moment, arriving into Windhoek from the air, when the city seems to simply materialise, a quiet arrangement of rooftops...

Featured Stories

Stories That Travel with Africa

Explore Culture, Travel, Cities, Events, and the untold stories shaping Africa and its global diaspora.

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Culture
Why Eagle Schnapps Still Speaks to the Ancestors
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Fashion
African Luxury Perfumes and the New Language of Scent
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Fashion
Aso Oke the Prestigious Handwoven Cloth of the Yoruba
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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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Heritage Boutique Manor

Gogo Falls Road, Langata, Nairobi, Kenya
Giraffe Manor (The Safari Collection)
  • 12 rooms: 6 in the Historic Manor, 6 in the Garden Manor
  • Check in time: From 12:00 noon; no early check-in
  • all-ages
  • pets-welcome
From $1413/night
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Safari Lodge

Oloololo Escarpment, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Fly-in via Mara airstrips
Angama Mara
  • 30 tented suites across two camps of 15
  • Check in time: 12:00
  • all-ages
  • pets-welcome
From $1850/night
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Private Island Lodge

North Island, Seychelles. Access by helicopter from Mahé
North Island, a Luxury Collection Resort
  • 11 villas
  • Check in time: 15:00
  • all-ages
  • pets-welcome
From $6826/night
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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.

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Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek
Karen, Nairobi
Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
Le Plateau, Abidjan
Talatona, Luanda
The Baixa and the Marginal, Luanda
Ilha do Cabo, Luanda

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
Thu , 15 October
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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