Egypt 3 rooms
Cairo Jazz Club
Cairo's live music venue since 2001, at 197 26th of July Corridor in Agouza, Giza. Reservations are necessary; entry is for couples and mixed groups aged 23 and over, with ID at the door.
Cairo Opera House
The main performing arts venue of the Egyptian capital, completed 1988 on Gezira Island in the Nile, in the Zamalek district. Home of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and Cairo Opera Ballet.
Pyramids of Giza
The Giza plateau, on the western edge of Cairo, holds the Great Pyramid, the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure and the Great Sphinx, all built in the Fourth Dynasty.
Kenya 3 rooms
Beneath the Baobabs
Beneath the Baobabs, the New Year festival formerly known as Kilifi New Year: three days and nights of house, Afro house and experimental music in a baobab grove on Kenya's Indian Ocean…
Lake Turkana Cultural Festival
Annual June festival in Loiyangalani on the south-eastern shore of Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake.
The Alchemist Bar
An open-air compound of bars, stages and food trucks off Parklands Road in Westlands, Nairobi, open since 31 December 2015. Live music, DJ sets, comedy, film and a monthly flea market.
Morocco 3 rooms
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
Founded 1994, programmes Sufi brotherhoods, Andalusian orchestras, Indian classical, gospel and Tibetan chant across a week each June.
Gnaoua and World Music Festival
The Gnaoua and World Music Festival takes place in Essaouira, the walled Atlantic port city of Morocco whose medina was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Hassan II Mosque Esplanade
Africa's second-largest mosque, inaugurated 1993, built half over the Atlantic Ocean. The 210-metre minaret is the world's second tallest.
South Africa 2 rooms
AfrikaBurn
South Africa's regional Burning Man event, held annually in late April on Quaggafontein, a remote family ranch in the Tankwa Karoo about 280km north of Cape Town.
Cape Town City Hall
An Edwardian civic building completed 1905, built in honey-coloured Bath stone on the Grand Parade. Home of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tanzania 3 rooms
B4 Beach Club
Oceanfront day-to-night parties with island energy and weekly residencies. The pulse of Zanzibar's coast where deep house and Afro rhythms drift across the Indian Ocean.
Sauti za Busara
An annual Pan-African music festival in Zanzibar's Stone Town. After years at the Old Fort, the 2026 edition moved to the Mnazi Mmoja Grounds.
Sunwaves Zanzibar
Sunwaves Zanzibar took the Sunwaves Festival to Dongwe Beach on Zanzibar, first announced in June 2021. Whether it still runs each November is not confirmed.
Uganda 2 rooms
Pulse
African electronic music
The rooms above are the continent's great places to hear music. For its clubs, collectives, DJs and producers, go to African electronic music on Pulse, the Sonic Paths map and radio: 37 cities and 213 artists and collectives, each city at the tempo of its own sound, with sets that play in the page.
Start with electronic music in Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, Cairo, Durban and Dar es Salaam, or with a sound: Afro house, amapiano, gqom, mahraganat and singeli. Every dated festival is on one page, electronic music festivals in Africa, and every artist is in the Pulse artist index.