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One World Heritage site, shared with a neighbor, holding a toad that bears live young and chimpanzees that use stones as tools.

Nothing on the World Heritage List, and three nominations of which two are extensions of properties the neighboring countries already hold.

A rainforest inscribed in 2025 holding pygmy hippopotamus and the endangered white-necked rockfowl, in the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot.

An island documenting both the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition, and a thousand stone circles shared with Senegal.

Seven World Heritage sites, more than any other country in this build: Roman towns, a medieval fortified city, the Kasbah of Algiers and Saharan rock art.

No World Heritage site, ten nominations filed in 2015 and still waiting, and a system of oral customary law that is inscribed.

A modernist city built as a colonial capital, inscribed together with the unplanned neighborhoods the planners did not design.

Six medina towns inscribed as one property, organized by matrilineal and matrilocal custom alongside patrilineal Islamic tradition.

Burundi holds no World Heritage site, ten nominations still waiting, and one inscribed tradition: the ritual dance of the royal drum.

The only World Heritage site in Guinea-Bissau was inscribed in 2025: the coastal and marine ecosystems of the Bijagos Archipelago.

Two World Heritage sites and nine elements on the intangible lists, from the caravan towns of the Sahara to an Atlantic coast of dunes and migrating birds.

Kenya has two rainy seasons, two dry ones and a coast that ignores the highlands. A month by month reading of when to go and why.

Kenya no longer issues most tourist visas. You apply online for an Electronic Travel Authorisation instead, and it is not the same thing.

Kenya runs on mobile money to a degree that surprises visitors. What that means for a traveler carrying a foreign card and some cash.

Kenya is hot at the coast, cold at altitude and dusty in a vehicle, often in one day. What to put in the bag, and the luggage limit that decides it.