Destination
São Tomé and Príncipe
Six plantations inscribed together as a colonial system built on forced labor to keep cocoa and coffee flowing after slavery was abolished.
The Congo Basin and the equatorial heart of the continent. Country guides for Angola, Cameroon, Gabon and neighbors across the equatorial belt.
Destination
Equatorial Guinea
No World Heritage site and no intangible heritage element, and six nominations filed in a single year after decades of filing none.
Destination
Angola
Mbanza Kongo, capital of one of the largest states in the region for five centuries, and a way of drawing in sand that schools now teach as mathematics.
Destination
Republic of the Congo
A forest massif holding the richest primate diversity in Central Africa, and a share of a park that runs across two international borders.
Destination
Gabon
Eighteen hundred rock carvings along a Bantu migration route, in a landscape where dense rainforest and relict savanna meet and neither wins.
Destination
Cameroon
Three World Heritage sites in Cameroon: a rainforest reserve, a share of a park spanning three countries, and a dry-stone landscape with unknown builders.