List of castles in Africa

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List of castles in Africa

Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Dependencies and other territories
Ceuta · Mayotte · Melilla · Puntland · Réunion · St. Helena · Somaliland · Western Sahara (SADR)

1 Angola
2 Egypt
3 Gambia
4 Ghana
5 Kenya
6 Libya
7 Mozambique
8 Senegal
9 South Africa
10 Tanzania
11 Uganda
12 Zimbabwe

[edit] Angola

Fort Naulila, Cunene Province
Fort Cuangar, Cunene Province

[edit] Egypt

[edit] Gambia

[edit] Ghana

Main articles: Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions and Dutch Gold Coast

Fort Amsterdam, Abandze, Cormantin, 1665-1721, 1785-1867
Fort Apollonia, Benyin, 16..-16.., 1868-1871
Fort Saint Antony, Axim, February 1642-1664, 1665-71
Fort Batenstein, Butri, 1656-1665, 1666-1871
Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast, 1688-1782, 16 April 1659-May 1659
Fort Crêvecoeur Accra, 1649-1782, 1785-1867/8
Fort Dorothea Akwida, 1687-1698, 1711-1712, 1732-1804
Elmina Castle, Elmina
English Fort (Fort Vrendenburg), Komenda, 1785-1871
Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Senya Beraku 1667/1705-1782, 1785-1868
Fort Hollandia (1725-1815, previously Gross-Friedrichsburg, part of the former Brandenburg Gold Coast settlements), sold to the Dutch by Prussia
Fort St. Jago (Fort Conraadsburg), Elmina
Fort Metal Cross (Metaal Kruis), Dixcove, 1868-1871
Fort Nassau (present Mouri), 1598/1611-1664, 1665-1782, 1785-1867
Fort Oranje Sekondi, 1640-1871
Osu Castle (Fort Christiansborg), Osu, Accra
Fort Patience (Fort Leydsaemhyt), Apam, 1697-1782,1785-1868
Fort Prinzenstein, Keta
Fort San Sebastian, Shama, 1637-1664,1664-1871