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    Mali
  • Great Mosque of Djenné.
  • LIST OF MUSEUMS IN Mali - Wikipedia.
    • Great Mosque of DjennÉ - large banco or adobe building that is considered by many architects to be one of the greatest achievements of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné. Along with the "Old Towns of Djenné" it was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.
    Morocco
  • LIST OF MUSEUMS IN MOROCCO - Wikipedia.
  • List of museums in Morocco by location & by speciality - Morocco Guide.
    • Koutoubia Mosque.
    • Koutoubia Mosque - ocated in the southwest medina quarter of Marrakesh. The mosque is ornamented with curved windows, a band of ceramic inlay, pointed merlons, and decorative arches; it has a large plaza with gardens, and is floodlit at night. The minaret, 77 metres (253 ft) in height, includes a spire and orbs. It was completed under the reign of the Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (1184 to 1199).
    • Majorelle Garden, Marrakech.
    • Majorelle Garden - twelve-acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech. Designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s and 1930s. The garden has been open to the public since 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé. After Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008 his ashes were scattered in the Majorelle Garden.
    South Africa
  • Robben Island.
  • LIST OF MUSEUMS IN South Africa - Wikipedia.
    • Iziko Museums of South African - the museum was founded in 1825, the first in the country. The museum houses important African zoology, palaeontology and archaeology collections.
    • Mandela House - house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962.
    • Robben Island Museum - Bloubergstrand, Cape Town. From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. Kgalema Motlanthe, who also served as President of South Africa, spent 10 years on Robben Island as a political prisoner, as did current President Jacob Zuma.
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