4 of Africa’s most fascinating abandoned hotels

Hotels are built to provide accommodation and food to visitors from all over the world. Others even add elements that set them apart as luxury resorts to attract top-notch tourists who are not shy to spend huge amounts of money to sample these offerings.

Some of these hotels have survived the test of time, but others have fallen apart as a result war or civil strife or nature taking its course or lack of money to run them. Others have suffered mismanagement to the point no one wants to refurbish them to their former glory.

Like many parts of the world, Africa is no stranger to such happenings. A number of its hotels have suffered different consequences and the lack of initiative has most of them left to ruins.

Here are Africa’s most fascinating abandoned hotels

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Nduta Waweru

Nduta Waweru considers herself a reader who writes. Like a duck, she’s calm on the surface, but she’s always busy paddling underneath to get you the best stories in arts, culture and current affairs. Nduta has published a poetry collection called Nostalgia, is a YALI Fellow and a member of Wandata-Ke Network.

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