15 Phenomenal Black-Owned Hotels Around the World: Featuring African Bush Camps

Beks Ndlovu looked at the safari industry’s colonial playbook and decided to write his own. Since 2006, his collection of 17 camps are defined not by what they add to the safari experience, but by what they strip away. Local guides, who grew up reading these landscapes, offer insights no guidebook could capture, from the specific cadence of a lion’s call to the morning habits of elephants in Hwange. At Atzaró camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, Baemule “Bae” Siethuka leads a new generation of female guides breaking ground in traditionally male territory. This isn’t just progressive window dressing—African Bush Camps channels 2.5 percent of revenue into community projects across three countries, proving luxury can serve a larger purpose.