Explore Africa
Fifty-four countries, five regions. Kenya is fully built; the rest are on the way.
North Africa
Coming soonAlgeria
Amazigh roots and a long war for independence.
Coming soonEgypt
Nile civilisations and modern pan-Arab politics.
Coming soonLibya
Desert trade routes, oil and upheaval.
Coming soonMorocco
Empires, Sufi scholarship and Atlantic trade.
Coming soonSudan
Kush and Meroë, Nile kingdoms and division.
Coming soonTunisia
Carthage, colonisation and the 2011 uprising.
West Africa
Coming soonBenin
The Dahomey kingdom and restitution debates.
Coming soonBurkina Faso
Mossi states and the Sankara revolution.
Coming soonCabo Verde
Atlantic islands shaped by creole culture.
Coming soonCôte d'Ivoire
Cocoa economies and postcolonial politics.
Coming soonGambia
River trade and Kunta Kinteh's Atlantic story.
Coming soonGhana
Asante power and Africa's first independence.
Coming soonGuinea
Sékou Touré's 'no' to colonial France.
Coming soonGuinea-Bissau
Amílcar Cabral and liberation theory.
Coming soonLiberia
Settler founding and Indigenous resistance.
Coming soonMali
Mansa Musa, Timbuktu and desert scholarship.
Coming soonMauritania
Saharan caravans and enduring caste debates.
Coming soonNiger
Songhai legacies and uranium politics.
Coming soonNigeria
Benin bronzes, Biafra and a giant's diaspora.
Coming soonSenegal
Gorée, Négritude and Wolof cultural power.
Coming soonSierra Leone
Freetown, recaptives and returnee identity.
Coming soonTogo
German, French and British colonial layers.
East Africa
Coming soonBurundi
Drum kingdoms and colonial ethnic engineering.
Coming soonComoros
Swahili-Indian Ocean island crossroads.
Coming soonDjibouti
A Red Sea gateway and strategic port.
Coming soonEritrea
Long liberation war and contested statehood.
Coming soonEthiopia
Aksum, Adwa and never formally colonised.
LiveKenya
Swahili coast, Mau Mau and a nation remade.
Coming soonMadagascar
Austronesian and African heritage combined.
Coming soonMalawi
Lake societies and the Chilembwe rising.
Coming soonMauritius
Plantation history and indentured labour.
Coming soonRwanda
Kingdoms, genocide and memory politics.
Coming soonSeychelles
Creole islands of the western Indian Ocean.
Coming soonSomalia
Poetry, pastoralism and partitioned borders.
Coming soonSouth Sudan
The world's newest nation and its long war.
Coming soonTanzania
Kilwa, Zanzibar and Nyerere's Ujamaa.
Coming soonUganda
Buganda kingdom and protectorate politics.
Central Africa
Coming soonAngola
Ndongo, Queen Njinga and a long civil war.
Coming soonCameroon
Anglophone-francophone colonial fault lines.
Coming soonCentral African Republic
Concession companies and resource conflict.
Coming soonChad
Kanem-Bornu and Sahelian crossroads.
Coming soonRepublic of the Congo
Kongo heritage and river trade.
Coming soonDR Congo
Leopold's atrocities, Lumumba and minerals.
Coming soonEquatorial Guinea
Spanish colonial rule and oil wealth.
Coming soonGabon
Forest peoples and Françafrique ties.
Coming soonSão Tomé and Príncipe
Sugar islands and plantation legacies.
Southern Africa
Coming soonBotswana
Tswana states, diamonds and democracy.
Coming soonEswatini
A monarchy navigating modern politics.
Coming soonLesotho
Moshoeshoe's mountain kingdom.
Coming soonMozambique
Swahili ports, FRELIMO and liberation war.
Coming soonNamibia
The Herero and Nama genocide and reparations.
Coming soonSouth Africa
Apartheid, resistance and unfinished freedom.
Coming soonZambia
Copperbelt labour and frontline state politics.
Coming soonZimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe, Chimurenga and land reform.