Heritage & Culture

Six rainforest parks along the eastern escarpment, inscribed in 2007, on the Danger List for fifteen years and removed from it in 2025.

The upper town of Antananarivo, its royal palace and its nineteenth century streets, on the Tentative List since 2016 and not inscribed.

The rainforest most visitors to Madagascar actually see, three hours from the capital, and not one of the six components of the Atsinanana inscription.

A crater lake in the Mauritian highlands, the most important Hindu site on the island and the focus of the largest Hindu pilgrimage outside India.

One of the oldest botanical gardens in the southern hemisphere, and the clearest surviving record of the plant economy that indenture was imported to serve.

Two forced migrations built Mauritius and the island remembers them separately. Slavery, indenture, and where a returning descendant can begin.

Four cuisines arrived on one small island and did not stay separate. What to eat in Mauritius, from street samoussas to a Sunday biryani.

A Hindu majority, a Creole heart, four working languages and a great deal of quiet politeness. How Mauritius holds itself, and how to fit in.

Sixteen hundred square meters of stone steps in Port Louis, where a system that moved half a million people and reshaped the labor of empires began.

The last of the native forest of Mauritius, on 3.5 per cent of the island, holding species that exist nowhere else. On the Tentative List, not inscribed.

The basalt mountain at the southwest corner where escaped slaves sheltered, inscribed for what is remembered about it rather than for what is built on it.

Nsima is not a side dish in Malawi, it is the meal, and UNESCO inscribed the whole tradition around it. What to eat and how it is eaten.