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Zambia sheltered the liberation movements of five neighbors, and it has now asked UNESCO to recognize the camps, bridges and rooms where that happened.

Botswana's largest protected area, nominated as a mixed property for its landscape and for the hunter-gatherer communities that still live inside it.

The river everyone photographs, the channel that switches itself on and off, and a nomination Botswana filed in 2010 that has not moved since.

The desert in Namibia has no bad season, which means the month you choose is really a decision about Etosha and about the rain.

The first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Namibia, and more than a century later the question of what is owed is still open.

Namibia chose English as its official language in 1990, and almost nobody grew up speaking it, which shapes every conversation you will have.

Namibia has two UNESCO listed traditions and they sit on different lists, which is the clearest illustration of what those lists actually mean.

Namibian food is German butchery, Afrikaner farming and Ovambo staples on the same plate, and the country is honest about all three.

Namibia’s highest mountain holds one of the densest bodies of rock art in the world, and its most famous figure was misnamed twice.

The Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world whose dune landscape is shaped mainly by fog rather than by rain.

Twyfelfontein carries one of the largest concentrations of rock engravings in Africa, and its second name is older than its first.

The flood that makes the Okavango worth seeing arrives in the middle of the dry season, which inverts everything you know about African seasons.