Yes, but watch out for that flat-top mountain, pilots! Congrats Cape Town International Airport: ranked Africa's #1 airport by air industry rating group Skytrax based on consumer comments, on-time records for plane departures, airport amenities and other factors.

Happy 44th Independence Day, Zimbabwe: said goodbye to colonial Rhodesia today in 1980. The capital Salisbury was renamed Harare today in 1982 (pic). Zim flag first flown today in 1980 featuring Hungwe, The Great Zimbabwe Bird. See: africatodayyesterday.org/days/18-apr

Line in the sand. With Africa's longest coastline, you'd expect Somalia to have lots of beautiful beaches - and you'd be right. The best part is many you have all to yourself. Central Mogadishu's beach is jammed with peeps, but this palm-lined one south of the city is all yours.

Cooking with ginger today? Chances are it was grown in Nigeria, Africa's top producer of the fibrous spice (at 553K tons annually way ahead of #2 Cameroon's 79K tons) and second in the world only to India.

Kenya leads the world, in rise in electric vehicle (EV) sales. From 475 EVs in 2022, 2,7K were sold in 2023, a growth of 568%!
Thank enlightened gov policy, including exemption of fully electric cars from Value Added Tax (VAT).
Pic: Africa's largest parade of EVs, in Nairobi.

On today's World Art Day, saluting Africa ballpen artists who get around expensive paints and canvas costs like Ghana's Enam Basokah, drawing photorealistic portraits with an ink pen, extraordinary skill and an artist's eye.

His name is Vote, keeping with his people's custom of naming children after events that occurred around their births. Vote Ubisi was born 27 April 1994 on the day free South Africans 1st voted.
My friend Nkhuleko (Independence) was named the day Eswatini gained its Independence.

Ghana's Black Star Monument must be remembered on today's International Day of Monuments and Sites - the first Independence Monument of the post-colonial era. Completed on time for Ghana's Independence from Britain in 1957, it is still a commanding structure.

Happy 72nd Birthday Johannesburg's Oliver O. Thambo International Airport: opened today in 1952 as Jan Smuts Airport (pic). Smuts was a PM who subjugated black Africans; Thambo was an activist who endured a 30year exile fighting for racial equality. See africatodayyesterday.org/days/17-apr

Today is the 70th World Art Day, started in 1954 by the International Association of Art. When it comes to Africa's art wealth, where to begin? How about the return of Nigeria's Benin Bronzes looting when the Benin Kingdom was ransacked by Europeans but now returning home.

April is International Guitar Month (invented in 1986 by the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association). Throughout Africa, fine guitars are being made by musician artisans, like the Casimi Guitar crafted by South Africa's Matthias Roux and Mathew Rice. CONT 1/4

I know you'll be suffering a sleepless night wondering what is Africa's longest aerial tramway!? But that's why I'm here! - to tell you it's South Africa's 1.2km Hartbeespoort Aerial Cableway. Now if I could only answer why anyone would want to see Hartbeespoort from the air.🚡🙄

Natural enemies. Crocodiles need only fear hippos. As for lions, 'Crocodiles pose a significant risk to lions coming to drink or crossing water bodies. They ambush, drag a lion underwater, utilising powerful jaws to drown the lion, tear it up, or break its bones,' says one study

Happy 130th birthday Africa's 1st and oldest telephone company: The Ethiopia Telecommunications Company, established today in 1894. See: africatodayyesterday.org/days/16-apr. Egypt's service began today in 1897. Bloemfontein, South Africa had phones in 1891 but only for the railroad office.

Spice up your meals today with garlic, which smells so good when cooking, on today's World Garlic Day. Garlic helps fight colds and flu, high blood pressure and diabetes. EGYPT is Africa's #1 garlic producer & world's #3 garlic grower. Pic: 2 women fight over garlic 4000years ago

The U.N.'s Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened in Geneva, serious about European and American countries that benefitted from slavery paying reparations for 12.5million people kidnapped from Africa and enslaved, retarding Africa's growth, etc. Pic: Brazil 1850.

So many riches. Today is International Day for Monuments and Sites, established in 1982 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization). I know what I'll be posting today. Where to start? Sudan's ancient pyramids are lesser known but outnumber Egypt's.

The cinema came to Africa today, when the 1st movies were shown at Johannesburg's Herwoods Arcade. Customers looked into viewers and turned cranks to make the films move. See more of April 19 events at the Calendar of African History: africatodayyesterday.org/days/19-apr

Today in 1891, Britain & Portugal nearly go to war over Portugal's claim to Africa called the Pink Map. International arbitration awards today's Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe to Britain and Angola & Mozambique to Portugal. No Africans were consulted. See africatodayyesterday.org/days/13-apr