Ethiopian Cultural Landscape Achieves World Heritage Status

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has registered Ethiopia’s Gedeo Cultural Landscape as an official World Heritage Site. The registration was announced on Sunday (September 17) at the 45th extended session of the World Heritage Committee currently under way in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the presence of Ethiopian Minister of Tourism Nasise Chale.…

Travelling Africa’s Greatest Lake

What’s In A Name… David Livingstone was the first European to map Lake Malawi. He named it Lake Nyasa, probably unintentionally as Nyasa actually means ‘lake’ in the local Yao language, so he’d effectively christened it ‘Lake Lake’. Livingstone also referred to the lake as the Lake of Stars, inspired by the fishermen’s lanterns bobbing…