Africa, Curated.

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.

African Luxury Perfumes and the New Language of Scent

Africa's scent landscape is in renaissance, its perfumers blending indigenous botanicals with refined haute technique. From Natural Lamu on the Kenyan coast...

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...

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...

Karen, Nairobi

Southwest of the towers, where the city loosens into old trees and long driveways under the Ngong Hills, Nairobi keeps its garden...

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...

Stories That Travel with Africa

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

Culture

Why Eagle Schnapps Still Speaks to the Ancestors

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Culture

Kente the Cloth That Speaks Without a Tongue

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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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Safari Lodge

Oloololo Escarpment, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Fly-in via Mara airstrips

Angama Mara

From $/night

Private Island Lodge

North Island, Seychelles. Access by helicopter from Mahé

North Island, a Luxury Collection Resort

From $/night

Safari Lodge

Near Kinigi, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Bisate Lodge

From $/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.

Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek

Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire

Zone 4, Marcory

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.

Mon

17 August

Mon , 17 August

Africa Fashion Week London 2026

Europe's largest platform for African and diaspora design returns 17-23 August, with the main runway and exhibition weekend on the 22nd and 23rd - fashion treated as an industry, not a theme.

Fri

2 October

Fri , 2 October

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.

Thu

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.

Experience Africa Beyond the Headlines Wherever Africa Is Lived

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