Botswana

A remarkable shift is reshaping the traditional landscape of piloting iconic canoes in one of Africa's most extraordinary places – a role that has long been the domain of men.

Ade Adepitan heads to Botswana to hear how elements of traditional culture have been blended with heavy metal music to create a uniquely modern “African metal” sound.

Botswana’s most precious natural habitat lies around the rivers of the Okavango Delta — a network that sustains the continent’s most biologically diverse wildlife population.

Walking safaris in Botswana bring travellers out of the jeep – and their comfort zone – and onto the dry, African soil to hunt for one of the greatest predators in the animal kingdom.

While most travellers come to Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta for the ultimate jeep safari, some insist Africa’s swamp-like wonderland is best seen by boat.

While in Botswana, a woman learns of her mother’s death and finds solace in an unlikely animal.

The legacy of a 15th-Century noblewoman lives on in the form of collective nouns used to describe groups of animals across the world.

With a remarkable diversity of wildlife and the seemingly infinite swamp waters of the Okavango Delta, a horseback safari through the African nation is an adventure all its own.