Africa’s First Bike Hotel Houses Africa’s First Bicycle Museum
Taking advantage of the spare time during the lockdown, Trails End owner, Pieter Silberbauer, came up with the idea after being introduced to Wayne Farley of the Franschhoek Motor Museum, who has many bikes on display. A week later, Mike Burton arrived on their stoep, recommending the idea of a bicycle museum alongside the extra […]
South Africans and UK Travellers to South Africa Rejoice
Eligible travellers, vaccinated in more than 37 new countries and territories, including Brazil, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey, will also be treated the same as returning fully vaccinated UK residents, so long as they have not visited a red list country or territory in the 10 days before arriving in England. […]
The Perfect Romantic Getaway
At Royal Mansour, you can bet that just about every detail at this palatial Marrakech hotel, which took more than three years and 1,200 master craftsmen to build, aims to please. Each of the 53 individual three-story riads (villas) have a mini courtyard (with a canopy that automatically unfurls if rain is detected); a dazzling […]
South African Carpenter Turning Skateboards into Sunglasses
Skateboarding in South Africa may be historically overshadowed by surfing, especially in a town like Durban, also known as “Surf City.” But for Dave De Witt, it was no contest. “It was colorful and it was wild and it was something completely different,” he tells CNN, reminiscing about growing up in Durban in the 1980s […]
Safari Style: Exceptional African Camps and Lodges
A new book by Melissa Biggs Bradley, founder of boutique travel firm, Indagare, traces her history exploring the best of the best in African travel. ‘Safari Style’: Exceptional African Camps and Lodges’ showcases a wide variety of high style across her hand-picked selections, which span 7 different countries on the continent. Some of the most […]
Bag Some Time with Former #DI Emerging Creative and Mebala Founder Tihalefang Moeletsi
Bags have endured for centuries as an expression of the user’s style, and an enterprising Design Indaba creative has embarked on a series of designs that are uniquely African. Although he made his way to fashion rather circuitously, Tlhalefang Moeletsi has managed to find a niche that honors African culture and allows people to carry […]
Haile Gerima on the Need for African Filmmakers to Reflect on a Continent That ‘Lost Its Mind’
When his film ‘Sankofa’ was originally released in 1993, it was an arduous, hands-on affair for Ethiopian filmmaker, Haile Gerima, to get it seen, but times have changed. Thanks to ARRAY, the production company founded by Hollywood mogul Ava Duvernay, his important film is set for re-release to a much broader audience through Netflix. He […]
Finding Home Through West African Food and Cooking
In a new monthly column, chef Yewande Komolafe revisits her passion for the West African food of her youth. In the process, she also delves into what the food we cook says about us and our culture. There was a time, just a couple of years ago, when I would invite two dozen strangers over […]
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah
The latest Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Tanzania-born novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Although writing for decades, often about the refugee experience, he first came to prominence when he won the Booker Prize in 1994 for his novel, Paradise, which tells the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the beginning of […]
