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.

Chinua Achebe and the Quiet Power That Made Africa Speak for Itself

With one novel in 1958, Chinua Achebe handed the African village a voice of its own and unsettled a century of writing...

North Island, Seychelles

North Island is the private-island idea taken to its logical end. A single granitic island in the inner Seychelles, reached by helicopter...

Chale Wote Street Art Festival 2026

Accra's oldest quarter turns itself over to art from 10-17 August - murals, performance, film and sound at street level in Jamestown,...

Talatona, Luanda

South of the bay, past the traffic that divides Luanda’s two working worlds, the city built itself a second capital. Talatona, in...

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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Fashion

African Luxury Perfumes and the New Language of Scent

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Culture

Kente the Cloth That Speaks Without a Tongue

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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)

From $1413/night

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Safari Lodge

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

Angama Mara

From $1850/night

Safari Lodge

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.

Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek

Karen, Nairobi

Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire

Zone 4, Marcory

Le Plateau, Abidjan

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.

Sun

30 August

Sun , 30 August

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.

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.

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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.

Experience Africa Beyond the Headlines Wherever Africa Is Lived

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