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…

Boutique hotels with rooftops from which to ogle a glinting skyline, open-air concerts, and nights that never end — it’s that time of year again, the heat is on, and the living is easy.

With West African economies growing in tandem with demand for new urban buildings, how are architects designing for the future?

Labadi beach life, bungee jumping, and exploring a sacred forest in Nigeria’s Osun State — 8 Steps to an unforgettable Summer break