West Africa

The largest city in Africa, and the reason most people come to Nigeria at all.

A harbour town built as a coaling station, and the home of Cape Verdean music.

The easiest first trip in West Africa: the slave-trade castles of the Gold Coast, Ashanti Kumasi, elephants at Mole, and…

The purpose-built capital: planned, quiet, and easier to move around than Lagos.

An active volcano rising to 2,829 metres, with a village, vineyards and coffee inside the caldera.

The arrival city, and in December the centre of the region’s festival season.

A river port in the southeast that runs a month-long carnival every December.

A narrow country either side of one river: winter-sun beaches, some of the easiest birding in Africa, and the UNESCO…

Two fortified trading posts 12 km apart on the Gold Coast, both used to hold captives before shipment across the…

Nigeria’s best-known game reserve, holding the country’s largest remaining elephant population.