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

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.

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 is unusually navigable for a desert country, right up to the last few kilometers of the places everyone wants to see.

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

Ten million fruit bats gather each October in a patch of swamp forest smaller than a square kilometer, in a Zambian park almost no itinerary includes.

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

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

UNESCO calls the San the first inhabitants of southern Africa. In one Namibian district the communities themselves hold the land and manage its wildlife.

A canyon 56 kilometers long and half a kilometer deep in southern Namibia, cut through rock older than almost anything else you can stand on.

Four places where the genocide against the Tutsi was carried out, inscribed together, and what a visitor owes them on arrival.

One of Africa's great montane rainforests, protected since 1933, with a lit international highway running through the middle of it.

Five volcanoes, the mountain gorillas, and a cave system inside the park that carries a health warning most itineraries omit.