Curated playlist
Member states of the African Union
- TanzaniaCountry in East Africa
- AlgeriaCountry in North Africa
- DjiboutiDjibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, and it carries the smallest population in mainland Africa. The 2024 census counted 1,066,809 people, recorded on the 20th of May. The nation takes its name from its capital, the City of…
- MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean. The main island was, for most of its history, completely empty of people. No human had set…
- Burkina FasoBurkina Faso sits at the heart of West Africa, entirely landlocked, ringed by six countries and a history that refuses to be still. On the 4th of August 1984, a young army captain named Thomas Sankara renamed this nation from the Republic…
- TunisiaTunisia sits at the precise point where the western and eastern halves of the Mediterranean Basin meet. From its northernmost tip, Cape Angela, you could theoretically scan the horizon toward Sicily and Sardinia to the north and Malta to…
- SenegalSenegal occupies a singular position on the map of Africa: it is the westernmost country on the entire mainland of the Old World, the very edge of Afro-Eurasia where the Atlantic Ocean begins. From the Cap-Vert peninsula, where the capital…
- KenyaIn 1984, at Lake Turkana, the palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey was assisted by Kamoya Kimeu when they uncovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil. That single skeleton anchors Kenya in one of the oldest human…
- Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo holds enough cobalt to power the world's electric cars, yet ranks 171 out of 193 countries on the Human Development Index in 2023. This is a country of staggering contradictions. Its untapped mineral…
- SudanAround 11500 BC, near Jebel Sahaba, people fought what scholars call the earliest known war in the world. That ground now sits inside Sudan, a country in Northeast Africa with 51.8 million people as of 2025. It spreads across 1,886,068…
- EthiopiaEthiopia holds a fossil named Dinkinesh, found in the Awash Valley of the Afar Region in 1974 by Donald Johanson. The world knows her as Lucy. She is one of the most complete adult Australopithecine skeletons ever uncovered, and she lived…
- Ivory CoastIvory Coast holds a distinction that few nations on earth can claim: it supplies more cocoa beans to the world than any other country. Every chocolate bar, every truffle, every cup of cocoa traces a supply chain that runs back to this West…
- South AfricaA temperature of -20.1 degrees Celsius was recorded at Buffelsfontein in the Eastern Cape in 2013. Far to the north, near Upington in the Kalahari, the mercury once reached 51.7 degrees Celsius in 1948. South Africa holds both extremes…
- NigeriaNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 242 million people, making it the sixth-most populous country in the world. It sits in West Africa, between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. Its…
- EgyptEgypt covers the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia, joined by the Sinai Peninsula. Over 107 million people live there, making it the most populous country in the Arab world. Yet nearly all of them crowd into a…