World Heritage List
1978
- Island of Gorée (Senegal)
- Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela (Ethiopia)
- Simien National Park (Ethiopia)
1979
- Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region (Ethiopia)
- Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions (Ghana)
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area (United Republic of Tanzania) 1
- Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) #
1980
- Aksum (Ethiopia)
- Asante Traditional Buildings (Ghana)
- Garamba National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Lower Valley of the Awash (Ethiopia)
- Lower Valley of the Omo (Ethiopia)
- Tiya (Ethiopia)
1981
- Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary (Senegal)
- Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Côte d'Ivoire) *
- Niokolo-Koba National Park (Senegal)
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara (United Republic of Tanzania)
- Serengeti National Park (United Republic of Tanzania)
1982
- Aldabra Atoll (Seychelles)
- Selous Game Reserve (United Republic of Tanzania)
- Taï National Park (Côte d'Ivoire)
1983
- Comoé National Park (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve (Seychelles)
1984
- Lake Malawi National Park (Malawi)
- Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas (Zimbabwe)
- Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
1985
- Royal Palaces of Abomey (Benin)
1986
- Great Zimbabwe National Monument (Zimbabwe)
- Khami Ruins National Monument (Zimbabwe)
1987
- Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon)
- Kilimanjaro National Park (United Republic of Tanzania)
1988
- Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (Central African Republic)
- Old Towns of Djenné (Mali)
- Timbuktu (Mali)
1989
- Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) (Mali)
- Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia) # *
1990
- Andrefana Dry Forests (Madagascar)
1991
- Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves (Niger)
- Island of Mozambique (Mozambique)
1994
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda)
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park (Uganda)
1996
- Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (Benin) *
1997
- Lake Turkana National Parks (Kenya)
- Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest (Kenya)
1999
- Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa (South Africa)
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa)
- Robben Island (South Africa)
- Sukur Cultural Landscape (Nigeria)
2000
- Island of Saint-Louis (Senegal)
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park (Lesotho) *
- Stone Town of Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania)
2001
- Lamu Old Town (Kenya)
- Royal Hill of Ambohimanga (Madagascar)
- Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi (Uganda)
- Tsodilo (Botswana)
2003
- Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites (Gambia)
- Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
- Matobo Hills (Zimbabwe)
2004
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (South Africa)
- Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba (Benin) *
- Tomb of Askia (Mali)
2005
- Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (Nigeria)
- Vredefort Dome (South Africa)
2006
- Aapravasi Ghat (Mauritius)
- Chongoni Rock-Art Area (Malawi)
- Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town (Ethiopia)
- Kondoa Rock-Art Sites (United Republic of Tanzania)
- Stone Circles of Senegambia (Gambia) *
2007
- Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (Gabon)
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana (Madagascar)
- Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape (South Africa)
- Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes (Namibia)
2008
- Le Morne Cultural Landscape (Mauritius)
- Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (Kenya)
2009
- Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande (Cabo Verde)
- Ruins of Loropéni (Burkina Faso)
2011
- Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)
- Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)
- Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
- Saloum Delta (Senegal)
2012
- Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes (Senegal)
- Historic Town of Grand-Bassam (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Lakes of Ounianga (Chad)
- Sangha Trinational (Cameroon) *
2013
- Historic Centre of Agadez (Niger)
- Namib Sand Sea (Namibia)
2014
- Okavango Delta (Botswana)
2016
2017
- Asmara: A Modernist African City (Eritrea)
- Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo (Angola)
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
2018
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains (South Africa)
- Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site (Kenya)
2019
- Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso)
2021
- Ivindo National Park (Gabon)
- Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire (Côte d'Ivoire)
2023
- Bale Mountains National Park (Ethiopia)
- Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua (Congo)
- Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero (Rwanda)
- Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda)
- The Gedeo Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
2024
- Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (South Africa)
- Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
- Royal Court of Tiébélé (Burkina Faso)
- The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa (South Africa)
- The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi (Kenya)
Notes
#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1
Legend
Cultural Natural Mixed
Cultural Natural Mixed
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