Explore Africa
Fifty-four countries, five regions. Kenya is fully built; the rest are on the way.
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.