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Algeria — The largest country in Africa, and the emptiest Angola — The Kalandula falls, and a coast nobody has seen Benin — Where vodun comes from, and the palaces of Dahomey Botswana — A delta that never reaches the sea Burkina Faso — The best cinema and the best masks in West Africa Burundi — The southernmost source of the Nile Cabo Verde — Ten islands, and the morna Cameroon — Africa in miniature Central African Republic — Dzanga Bai, and the forest elephants Chad — Zakouma, and the lakes of Ounianga Comoros — An active volcano, and the fish that came back from the dead Congo — Odzala, and the western lowland gorilla Côte d'Ivoire — Lagoons, forest and the Atlantic Djibouti — Where three plates pull apart DR Congo — Virunga, Nyiragongo, and the okapi Egypt — The Nile, and five thousand years Equatorial Guinea — A volcanic island, and turtles on the black sand Eritrea — Art deco Asmara, and the Dahlak islands Eswatini — Small, and full of everything Ethiopia — The roof of Africa Gabon — Elephants on the beach at Loango The Gambia — A river with a country around it Ghana — The forts, the forest and the highlife Guinea — The water tower of West Africa Guinea-Bissau — The Bijagos, and eighty-eight islands Kenya — Where the wild runs free Lesotho — The kingdom in the sky Liberia — Sapo, surf, and the last of the Upper Guinean forest Libya — Leptis Magna, and the sand sea behind it Madagascar — An island that evolved alone Malawi — A lake with more fish species than any other Mali — Timbuktu, Djenne, and the Niger bend Mauritania — The iron ore train, and the libraries of Chinguetti Morocco — Atlas, Sahara and the medinas Mozambique — Two thousand kilometres of coast Namibia — Where the desert meets the wild Niger — The Air, the Tenere, and the last giraffes of West Africa Nigeria — The loudest country on the continent Rwanda — A thousand hills Sao Tome and Principe — Two volcanic islands and a lot of cocoa Senegal — Where the Sahel meets the Atlantic Sierra Leone — Beaches under forested mountains Somalia — The longest coastline in mainland Africa South Africa — A world in one country South Sudan — The Sudd, and the second-largest migration on earth Sudan — More pyramids than Egypt Tanzania — Wild Africa, island Africa Togo — Fifty kilometres wide, and a different country every hour north Tunisia — Carthage, the Sahel and the desert south Uganda — The Pearl of Africa Zambia — Into the real wilderness Zimbabwe — Great Zimbabwe and the Zambezi Mauritius — Reef, sugar and the volcanic interior Seychelles — Granite islands in the Indian Ocean
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