This is part of our global guide to the Best Places to Go in 2024—find more travel inspiration for next year, organized by continent, here.
This is part of our global guide to the Best Places to Go in 2024—find more travel inspiration for next year, organized by continent, here.
Africa’s riches are staggering. Yet, while its baobab trees, lions and gorillas, and deltas like the Okavango have long captured the world’s imaginations, its cities have been too often overlooked by travelers from beyond the continent, despite being equally exciting cultural ecosystems, and destinations in their own right.
Nov 27, 2024 • 8 min read
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Starting December 1, Delta Air Lines is relaunching its daily services to Lagos, Nigeria, from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
Travelers have plenty to look forward to on their trip to culturally rich Ghana.
Within the past 12 months, the Group signed five new hotels, adding over 1,000 rooms to the region’s portfolio.
The opening of the new Milan Linate – Malta Luqa connection in the upcoming summer season further enhances ITA Airways’ offer on the Malta destination and adds to the flight already operated from Rome Fiumicino with 2 weekly frequencies that will become 3 from April and 7 from June.
Although many give Bruce Brown's 1966 film, The Endless Summer, credit for introducing surfing to fishing communities in Ghana, Senegal, and Nigeria, the sport has been happening along the shores of Western Africa, including Ghana's 300-mile coastline, for centuries. West Africans independently developed surfing before outsiders arrived; since at least the 1640s, sea merchants knew surf patterns well and used wooden surf-canoes to fish and ride 10-foot tall waves. Yet in present-day Ghana, surfing is largely the domain of tourists.
This is part of our global guide to the Best Places to Go in 2024—find more travel inspiration here.
British Airways has resumed its route to Riga, Latvia, after a hiatus spanning more than 15 years.
Within the last decade, cocktail bars in Asia have firmly stepped out from behind the shadows of their Western counterparts. What was once a handful of acclaimed establishments in developed hubs like Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong has flourished into a continent-wide wave of progressive bars known not only locally but globally for sustainable innovation as well as distinct, culture-specific takes on mixology with local ingredients.
When I speak Abena Boamah, founder and CEO of clean beauty brand Hanahana, she's Zooming in from Accra during a month-long stay in the city, partially motivated by business and partially personal. In fact, it's one of many trips that have brought her back to the country she has lived in on-and-off again. Luckily, having a shea butter-based product and lots of family throughout Ghana will do that. “I'm Ghanaian, and when I started a company that uses shea butter as an ingredient, I decided that it was important for us to source raw shea directly from producers in Ghana,” says the now Chicago-based Boamah. “Ever since I launched Hanahana, it's allowed me to reconnect with my culture and with my family back home. I can work and build a life in Ghana at the same time.”
“We’re not a WeWork,” the boss of Delta Air Lines’ Sky Clubs once famously said, as the airline began capping the amount of time passengers could stay in its airport lounges.
For decades, American and European fashion houses have reduced African design ideas to stereotypes. Now a wave of West African brands are asserting their identities by championing methods and materials that are woven with the designers' own narratives. “There is a wealth of knowledge and experience that could be lost if we do not evolve,” says Nkwo Onwuka, founder of NKWO. Celebrating craftsmanship that offers a window into countries like Nigeria and Ghana, these labels are preserving age-old techniques rooted in tradition—and building a global following in the process.
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