Heritage

Côte d’Ivoire has 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ranging from some of West Africa’s last intact primary rainforests to a French colonial capital shaped by…

Mauritius has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both cultural, both rooted in histories of coerced migration and resistance that shaped the modern Indian Ocean…

The Gambia has two UNESCO World Heritage Sites — both cultural, both carrying histories that reach far beyond West Africa’s smallest mainland country.…

The Seychelles has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, both inscribed in the early 1980s and both recognised for natural heritage of global importance. Across a…

Benin has 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a compact list that spans royal court architecture in the forest-savanna transition zone, one of West Africa’s most…

Suriname has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites — a small but remarkably varied list that spans Amazonian rainforest of continental scale, a canal-laced…

Namibia has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, one cultural and one natural, inscribed between 2007 and 2013. That compact figure belies a country of…

Botswana has 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — one cultural, one natural — spanning ancient rock art sanctuaries and one of Africa’s most extraordinary wetland…

Qatar has one UNESCO World Heritage Site — a number that belies the depth of history compressed into the country’s single inscription. That site, a ruined…