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Nigeria has eight UNESCO-inscribed traditions. One of them is a divination system that the African diaspora carried across the Atlantic and still uses.

Three of Nigeria's inscribed traditions are gatherings you could in principle attend. Two of them are in states the FCDO restricts.

A Yoruba divination system is still practiced in the Americas and the Caribbean. That is the thread. There is also a warning you need first.

No Nigerian accessibility authority was reachable. On a country this size, the honest guidance is about which places are reachable at all.

Eleven churches cut down into living rock, and the most significant heritage site in Ethiopia. It is also in a region closed to all travel.

The capital of a kingdom that traded with Rome and Persia as an equal, marked by giant stelae. Tigray is closed and its flights are suspended.

A walled city said to be the fourth holiest in Islam, with 82 mosques inside it. It is also the one site in this cluster you can reach.

Stone terraces worked continuously for 21 generations, and carved wooden figures that UNESCO says record a tradition close to disappearing.

Where Lucy was reconstructed from 52 fragments in 1974, and one of the most important paleontological landscapes anywhere on earth.

On Ethiopia the honest answer to when you should go begins with where you are still allowed to, and then with two precisely dated festivals.

A visa is required and is applied for online before you fly. Ethiopian Origin ID card holders are the exception worth knowing about.

Ethiopia is a cash society with hard limits on carrying birr across the border, and one receipt decides whether you can change money back.

Altitude, a malaria line drawn at 2,500 meters and thin medical care outside Addis Ababa decide most of what goes in an Ethiopian bag.

Getting around Ethiopia is decided by the advisory before it is decided by timetables. Two of the country's best known routes are closed.

Heritage travel is not sightseeing with a heavier subject. It asks something of the traveler that ordinary travel does not, and it is worth knowing what, before you go.