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The walled city of Harar and the Gedeo agroforestry landscape: two of twelve inscriptions, read against travel advice that closes much of the country.

The Osun sacred grove and the terraced hill settlement at Sukur: two World Heritage sites, one of them inside the region both advisories close.

Aldabra, where a herbivore sits at the top of the food chain, and a palm forest on Praslin holding the largest seed in the plant kingdom.

Goree, which UNESCO calls both a reminder of human exploitation and a sanctuary for reconciliation, and a thousand stone circles along the Gambia.

The palaces of twelve Abomey kings, a savannah holding the only viable lion population in West Africa, and the advisory that closes it.

Koutammakou, the mud tower-houses of the Batammariba, is the only World Heritage site in Togo and it continues into Benin.

Five World Heritage sites, including the Shona capital a legend once credited to the Queen of Sheba, and half of a waterfall Zambia shares.

A fortified Portuguese trading post on the route to India, in a province whose northern districts current travel advice closes.

One transnational property, the largest concentration of San rock paintings anywhere south of the Sahara, and a fish found in a single park.

No World Heritage site at all, one nomination pending since 2008, and the earliest known mining anywhere: ochre cut 42,000 years ago.

Three World Heritage sites, and current travel advice closes the regions holding two of them, including a dry-stone landscape with unknown builders.

Eighteen hundred rock carvings along a Bantu migration route, in a landscape where dense rainforest and relict savanna meet and neither wins.

A forest massif holding the richest primate diversity in Central Africa, and a share of a park that runs across two international borders.

Mbanza Kongo, capital of one of the largest states in the region for five centuries, and a way of drawing in sand that schools now teach as mathematics.

No World Heritage site and no intangible heritage element, and six nominations filed in a single year after decades of filing none.