Windhoek, Namibia’s Metropolis in an Oasis
Before arriving in Namibia, my mental picture leaned toward extremes — dust, dunes, and distance. Windhoek unsettles that assumption quietly. The city does not announce itself. It sits instead in a basin, held between the Auas and Eros mountain ranges, contained by geography and shaped by history. Namibia’s capital and largest city, Windhoek is modest […]
Cape Town: Where Oceans Meet and Stories Rise
This City Guide continues TIA Africa’s Cape Town Bucket List series.Part I explored the city’s foundational landmarks and first encounters;this edition extends the journey, moving deeper into neighbourhoods, coastlines, and the everyday rhythms that shape how Cape Town is lived. Cape Town does not reward haste. It is a city read through movement rather than […]
Mauritius Africa’s Quietly Composed Treasure
When I first encountered stories about Mauritius, my imagination—like that of many first-time readers—settled easily on familiar imagery: white sand, turquoise water, and a gentle island rhythm designed for rest. That picture was not wrong, but it was incomplete. What unfolded instead was something far richer and far more textured than a postcard vision of […]
Cape Town: One for the Bucket List
Whether you are arriving in Cape Town for the first time or returning to a city that already feels familiar, there is a moment—often just after landing—when the place announces itself. The outline of Table Mountain rises calmly in the distance, sea air drifts in through open doors, and the pace of the city seems […]
A Trip Through The Island of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is an island with a small population compared to other West African countries, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and it’s among the most remote islands in the world, named after the discoveral, the ascension of Jesus into Heaven and a Saint, still under British rule […]