On our radar.
Stories and places we are curious about. An editorial selection, rather than a live news feed.
Lalibela, the town carved towards the sky
Meroë, the pyramids of the other Nile
Two hundred pyramids in the Sudanese sand, a kingdom that stood up to Rome, warrior queens and a treasure hunter: the Kush notebook.
Kilimanjaro, five climates up to the snow
The roof of Africa is climbed on foot, without a rope, in a week: the story of an ascent, from the Chagga banana groves to the last glaciers.
The Bijagós, an archipelago that lives by its own rules
Eighty-eight islands off Guinea-Bissau, hippos that swim in the sea, turtles by the thousand and a society that held off the Portuguese until 1930.
Timbuktu, the city of 333 saints
Three mosques of earth, hundreds of thousands of manuscripts hidden in family homes, salt caravans: the notebook of a city Europe searched for over three centuries.
Mozambique, the white sand of the Indian Ocean
From the dunes of Bazaruto to the whale sharks of Tofo and the coral town of Ilha de Moçambique: 2,500 kilometres of coast, told beach by beach.
The Comoros, islands of the Moon and of perfume
A living volcano, a medina facing the Mozambique Channel, a marine park invented by ten villages and the scent of ylang-ylang: three islands almost nobody visits.
Lesotho, the kingdom in the sky
An entire country above 1,400 metres, a pass to be climbed by 4x4, a 192-metre waterfall, herders in blankets and horses for every path: the notebook of a landlocked kingdom.
The Kalahari, the desert that is not one
Nine hundred thousand square kilometres of sand under grass, black-maned lions, salt lakes where zebras run and the oldest people in the world: the Kalahari, from Botswana.
Equatorial Guinea, the volcano island and the forest
Africa’s only Spanish-speaking country: a 3,000-metre volcano above Malabo, beaches where four species of turtle nest, a forest of giant frogs and an island lost in the southern hemisphere.
Dakar, facing the world
The westernmost point of the continent, an island of memory twenty minutes away by ferry, a statue that divides opinion, pirogues at the end of every street: the notebook of an Atlantic capital.
A continent, a thousand tables
Discovering a place can begin with a shared meal.
The luxury of an open horizon
A visual meditation on space, light and slowing down.