This is an original Kokua Design Company "Vintage Inspired" Map of Africa and Madagascar. It lists the country boundaries and capital city's. This can be personalized with favorite or bucket list locations. Please contact me if personalization is desired. In most cases it can be done at no extra charge depending on the amount of content you'd like added. Printed on 140lb. heavy weight Canson art paper - Original design copyrighted by Kate McRedmond. Image designed to fit 11"x14" mattings inside a 16"x20" frame. Frame and matting are not included.

Are you looking for the best beaches in Cape Town, South Africa? This guide includes my favorite Cape Town beaches - including a map of where to find them!

High-quality posters to hang in dorms, bedrooms or offices. Multiple sizes are available. Printed on 185gsm semi gloss poster paper. Additional sizes are available. Africa Map by Jazzberry Blue

Physical map of South Africa showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about South Africa.

Physical map of Senegal showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Senegal.

Highlights of Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa. This is the most visited province in the country, renowned for its beautiful beaches...

Physical map of Democratic Republic Of The Congo showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Democratic Republic Of The Congo.

What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then this is what Africa might have looked like.

Nations Online Project - Map of Africa shows the continent and the location of all of the African nations; with images, maps, links, and background information

Sub-Saharan Africa (1955), or sSA for short, means Africa south of the Sahara. In practice it means all of Africa except for the countries in the very north – Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, …

Physical map of Comoros showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Comoros.

Visiting South Africa's famous fishing village, Paternoster soon? Here are all the best things to do in Paternoster + tips to plan your trip

Pakenham’s very thorough history of The Boer War (1899-1902) reads like a novel and I could hardly put it down. In my mind that puts him in a class with Barbara Tuckman and other reviewers have made the same comment. The book was written over 30 years ago (published in 1979), so the author was able to interview a great many survivors from both sides, as well as access a mass of documents that were not available when the original histories had been written, just after the war. Pakenham regretted that there was not as much material available from the Boer side as from the British. That is understandable as their army was purely volunteer irregulars, without the massive bureaucracy of the British military machine. There were also only 50,000 Boers vs 250,000 British. Wars are not fought in abstract but fought by people. The book is filled with dozens if not hundreds of characters all skillfully drawn, (though sometimes hard to keep track of, without a war room of maps and pins). While it is the politicians and officers whose names we remember from history…Asquith, Balfour, Chamberlain, Lloyd George, John Buchan, Roberts, Kitchener, French, Haig, Allenby, White, Buller, Baden-Powell, Wolseley, Churchill, Rhodes …Kruger, De Wet, Cronje, de la Rey, Botha, Smuts…Pakenham writes a great deal of his narrative from the perspective of the men on the ground, both Boer and British, as well. Their view of the war was one of deprivation, boredom, sudden death and frustration with both the enemy and their own commanding officers. There are many conflicts within a war, not just between the side dubbed “us” and the side dubbed “the enemy” or even with the weather and the terrain. Pakenham weaves them all into the larger struggle. In England there were The Imperialists vs. the “Pro-Boers” as they are labeled; Colonial Office vs. War Office vs. Treasury; the “African Ring" under Wolseley vs. the “Indian Ring" under Roberts. In Africa, there were too many personal conflicts to mention here. Initially it was Milner vs. Kruger which set the stage for the war. Then it was Buller and the other field Generals vs. Roberts/Kitchener; Rhodes vs. Milner and on it went. Plots within plots. It was a new kind of war Pakenham described. Perhaps rightly called “the first modern war”. The British, used to fighting poorly armed and organized natives in Africa and India, as usual underestimated their opponents. (Was there ever a war that was not going to “over by Christmas”?). The British had shed their red uniforms for khaki. It was the first war fought with smokeless powder. Soldiers and artillery were now invisible to the enemy. High velocity, small bore, magazine loading rifles, Lee-Enfields and Mausers, had replaced the old single shot breech-loaders. A soldier could aim and fire a clip of shots in the time it used to take to fire once. Concentration camps, used by the Spanish against the Cubans, were used by the British who rounded up women and children as part of their scorched earth tactics against the Boer guerrillas. The British were taught “no end of lessons” as Kipling put it, but they failed to learn the crucial one – modern weaponry combined with trenches put the advantage on the side of the defenders. That lesson was brought home at great cost in France and Belgium during The Great War. Buller had learned how to deal with this new way of war through the series of defeats he suffered in attempting to relieve the siege of Ladysmith. No more one-day set-piece battles. The new war required creeping artillery barrages, more individual initiative, better use of cover, and day after day of constant pressure. But the pro-Kitchener crowd made Buller the scapegoat for initial British reverses and he was fired at the end of the war. Histories are written by not only the victorious side but the victorious cliques. Pakenham redeems Buller and illustrates that his replacements as Commander in Chief, Roberts and then Kitchener made as many if not more blunders under far easier conditions. A soldier in the field must have wondered (as I expect all soldiers do) who the real enemy was, the men facing him trying to kill him or the men behind him sabotaging his ability to do his job with endless wranglings for political position and endless blunders in supplying necessary provisions. Without even trying, Pakenham has written an anti-war, anti-imperialism book. Not by preaching or pointing out the obvious but by simply telling it like it was. Another useless war. For all that it was to be a “White Man’s” war; the Africans paid the greater price in loss of life, property and rights. For all his Machiavellian plotting, Milner’s dream of a white non-Africaner British-only South Africa came to nothing. The Liberals won the next election, restored self government to the four colonies and the Boer/Afrikaner parties won majorities. And in the end, Africa got her revenge on Milner who was bitten by a tstse fly and died of sleeping sickness. For a better and shorter review, I suggest reading Jeff Cordell's review on Amazon at the link above. This was totally a learning experience for me, as previous knowledge was based on Canadian highschool history which was sketchy at best. Source for map here

Physical map of Burkina Faso showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Burkina Faso.

Physical map of Malawi showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Malawi.

Physical map of Eswatini showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Swaziland.

Physical map of Botswana showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Botswana.

Physical map of Namibia showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Namibia.

Your ultimate guide to the best things to do in Knysna, from how to visit the iconic Knysna Heads, seeing whales & where the best beaches & sunset views are

Physical map of Angola showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Angola.

See a map of Africa in 1789. The Atlantic Slave Trade is at its height, and having a hugely disruptive impact on many African societies.

Physical map of Mauritania showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Mauritania.

The map might not be the territory, but gosh darn it both aren't fascinating to look at! We’re pretty big fans of maps and we can’t wait to set our eyes on even more unusual and peculiar ones in order to expand our minds and feed our imaginations which are hungry for aesthetic designs. Luckily for us, there are tons of like-minded internet users who are nearly bursting with their love of maps.

If you’re a solo female traveler, here are some of the best places to visit in Africa on your own - a few may come as a surprise.

Africa. 1879.

Technology in Africa is making huge advances, says Jonathan Rosenthal. But its full benefits will be reaped only once basics like power supplies and communications are widely available

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The ultimate Seychelles travel guide. The Seychelles are an awesome archipelago/country that most people know nothing about!

Physical map of Ghana showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Ghana.