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Zanzibar has long been sold through a familiar image: turquoise water, white sand, palm trees and the winding streets of Stone Town. But the islands are now entering a different phase of their tourism story. International arrivals reached 917,167 in 2025, up sharply from 736,755 the year before, according to Zanzibar tourism statistics. The growth reflects Zanzibar’s increasingly global appeal, helped by expanding air connections, resort development and its position as one o

Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco — Saturday 8 August 2026 Four places at the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil will be decided this weekend as the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations moves into the quarter-final stage, with hosts Morocco among eight teams chasing direct qualification. Unlike previous editions, reaching the WAFCON final is not required to book a World Cup spot. Whoever wins each of the four quarter-finals goes straight through to Brazil. The four losing sides are n

Ten teams. That number alone tells you something changed. Four years ago in Qatar, Africa sent five nations to the World Cup. This summer, in the newly expanded 48-team tournament across the US, Mexico and Canada, ten African sides took the pitch, the largest contingent the continent has ever fielded. Algeria, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia all arrived with something to prove. By the time the group stage closed, n

Walk into a cultural centre anywhere from Nairobi to Lagos, and you’ll find them staring back at you: masks carved generations ago, their painted eyes still holding whatever story they were made to tell. That’s the thing about African art. It was rarely made just to be looked at. It was made to do something: to protect, to remember, to speak for people who couldn’t. That’s the spirit running through this continent’s cultural heritage, and it’s worth understanding properly, no

A drum doesn’t need translation. Neither does a call-and-response chorus, or a rhythm that gets a whole room moving before anyone’s decided to dance. That’s the thread running through African diaspora music, wherever it landed and whatever it became. The sound changed shape across oceans and centuries, but the instinct behind it never did. Understanding that thread means starting long before any of the genres we know today existed. Eye-level view of a traditional African drum

A length of ankara fabric doesn’t just sit on a shelf waiting to be admired. It gets cut, worn, danced in, passed down. That’s always been the difference with African fashion. It was never only about how something looks. It’s about what it says, who made it, and what it means to put it on. That instinct, clothing as identity rather than decoration, is exactly what’s now pulling African fashion onto runways and red carpets around the world. Eye-level view of a colorful African