West Africa will likely be the culture capital of the world by the time you read this.
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Every so often someone writes in asking if we can take them to see “real tribes” and go see a ceremony or something not touristy. That phrase “real tribes” is a trope I’ve come to dislike intensely. It carries too much old baggage and it has never been the kind of...
At our hotel in Bamako, the Sleeping Camel, you can drink a cold drink under the steady gaze of three women who refused to stay in the background of West African history. Their portraits hang together, not because their lives intersected, but because each left a...
The Imraguen are a small fishing community spread across nine villages inside Mauritania’s Banc d’Arguin National Park. If you travel with us on our Mauritania tours, you will almost certainly meet them. And if the wind and tides play along, we might take a sail in a...
Benin does not hold back when it comes to celebrating Vodun Days. Ever year on January 10, the coastal town of Ouidah transforms into the busiest town in Benin. At night it feels like half the country has descended to party into the early hours. Vodun Days is an...
We showed up on time, and for once in Lagos, it actually mattered. When you want to have a night out at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, make sure you get there at exactly 7 and not a minute after. They don't mess around at the Shrine. The full band launched...