Heritage & Culture

The Lozi kingdom moves house every year when the Zambezi rises, and the whole floodplain is built around the fact that it does.

Fourteen places across South Africa, inscribed in 2024 for the liberation struggle and, just as deliberately, for the reconciliation after it.

Nearly a million hectares of Kalahari, inscribed for the San who lived on it, and for a language now down to its last speakers.

A Coptic pilgrimage city south of Alexandria, built over a martyr's tomb. It spent twenty-four years on the Danger list and came off in 2025.

The oldest working Christian monastery in the world, under a mountain that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all hold sacred.

Ten shrines near Kumasi are all that survives of Asante architecture. They are also working places of worship, which changes how you visit.

A granite range in the far northeast, sacred for centuries, twice stormed by colonial troops, and still drawing pilgrims to its ancestor shrine.

Ten forest sites along 200km of the Kenyan coast, holding the remains of Mijikenda villages. Sacred ground first, and a visitor site only rarely.

Dry stone walls up to four and a half meters high, laid without mortar in the sixteenth century, in the hills northwest of Migori.

A conservative, hospitable and very sociable country where dress, photography and the word for tipping are the three things visitors most often get wrong.

Egypt sits at the join of Africa and the Arab world, and the Nubian south carries a displacement story that the monuments above it are famous for.

Bean breakfasts, a national dish assembled from three starches at once, and a food culture built on feeding a lot of people well and cheaply.