Explore Africa
Fifty-four countries, five regions. Kenya is fully built; the rest are on the way.
North Africa
Algeria
Amazigh roots and a long war for independence.
Egypt
Nile civilisations and modern pan-Arab politics.
Libya
Desert trade routes, oil and upheaval.
Morocco
Empires, Sufi scholarship and Atlantic trade.
Sudan
Kush and Meroë, Nile kingdoms and division.
Tunisia
Carthage, colonisation and the 2011 uprising.
West Africa
Benin
The Dahomey kingdom and restitution debates.
Burkina Faso
Mossi states and the Sankara revolution.
Cabo Verde
Atlantic islands shaped by creole culture.
Côte d'Ivoire
Cocoa economies and postcolonial politics.
Gambia
River trade and Kunta Kinteh's Atlantic story.
Ghana
Asante power and Africa's first independence.
Guinea
Sékou Touré's 'no' to colonial France.
Guinea-Bissau
Amílcar Cabral and liberation theory.
Liberia
Settler founding and Indigenous resistance.
Mali
Mansa Musa, Timbuktu and desert scholarship.
Mauritania
Saharan caravans and enduring caste debates.
Niger
Songhai legacies and uranium politics.
Nigeria
Benin bronzes, Biafra and a giant's diaspora.
Senegal
Gorée, Négritude and Wolof cultural power.
Sierra Leone
Freetown, recaptives and returnee identity.
Togo
German, French and British colonial layers.
East Africa
Burundi
Drum kingdoms and colonial ethnic engineering.
Comoros
Swahili-Indian Ocean island crossroads.
Djibouti
A Red Sea gateway and strategic port.
Eritrea
Long liberation war and contested statehood.
Ethiopia
Aksum, Adwa and never formally colonised.
Kenya
Swahili coast, Mau Mau and a nation remade.
Madagascar
Austronesian and African heritage combined.
Malawi
Lake societies and the Chilembwe rising.
Mauritius
Plantation history and indentured labour.
Rwanda
Kingdoms, genocide and memory politics.
Seychelles
Creole islands of the western Indian Ocean.
Somalia
Poetry, pastoralism and partitioned borders.
South Sudan
The world's newest nation and its long war.
Tanzania
Kilwa, Zanzibar and Nyerere's Ujamaa.
Uganda
Buganda kingdom and protectorate politics.
Central Africa
Angola
Ndongo, Queen Njinga and a long civil war.
Cameroon
Anglophone-francophone colonial fault lines.
Central African Republic
Concession companies and resource conflict.
Chad
Kanem-Bornu and Sahelian crossroads.
Republic of the Congo
Kongo heritage and river trade.
DR Congo
Leopold's atrocities, Lumumba and minerals.
Equatorial Guinea
Spanish colonial rule and oil wealth.
Gabon
Forest peoples and Françafrique ties.
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sugar islands and plantation legacies.
Southern Africa
Botswana
Tswana states, diamonds and democracy.
Eswatini
A monarchy navigating modern politics.
Lesotho
Moshoeshoe's mountain kingdom.
Mozambique
Swahili ports, FRELIMO and liberation war.
Namibia
The Herero and Nama genocide and reparations.
South Africa
Apartheid, resistance and unfinished freedom.
Zambia
Copperbelt labour and frontline state politics.
Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe, Chimurenga and land reform.