Here’s our selection of some amazing activities to entertain and enrich you, or just to set your pulse racing.

Travel industry insiders reveal their best tips and favourite trips

From Adire to Kente - African textiles and the designers making them oh so covetable.

In Angola, diverse influences coalesce into a culture unlike anywhere else in the world.

How did Afrobeats music make it from tiny West African clubs to hit the mainstream in New York and London?

An indispensable style guide for 2013

A Feast of Life in a coffee table book

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Emerging from years of turmoil, get the low-down on the cultural mega-city at the centre of the continent, and the adventures that lie beyond…

40 percent of Nigeria's population are between the ages of 10 to 24. By 2025, the number of Nigerian youth will have exceeded 57 million, making them a crucial demographic. “Though we are little, we are mighty,” say the winners of The Nigerian Youth Leadership Awards.