AfrinkongEvery country, twenty-seven ways in.
Each country below is described through the same twenty-seven tourism experiences, so you can compare them like for like.
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-Bissau
The Bijagos, and eighty-eight islands
Guinea
The water tower of West Africa
Kenya
Where the safari was invented
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
Mauritius
Reef, sugar and the volcanic interior
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
Land of a thousand hills
Sao Tome and Principe
Two volcanic islands and a lot of cocoa
Senegal
Where the Sahel meets the Atlantic
Seychelles
Granite islands in the Indian Ocean
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
Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar
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
The real wilderness
Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe and the Zambezi