Map Africa from the inside out.
Corners gives every corner of the continent a place on the map — and every explorer a passport to reach it. Built for Africa, and nothing else.
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A continent of 1.4 billion people, 55 countries and thousands of living cultures — and on most of the world’s apps, it fits in a handful of pins.
When Africa is mapped from the outside, it comes out thin: the same three capitals, the same tourist-brochure captions, the same restaurants that could afford to be found. The market three streets over, the festival everyone in town is going to, the guesthouse a family has run for a generation — none of it makes the map.
We think that’s backwards. The people who live a place are the ones who know it. So Corners is built the other way around: seeded openly, claimed by the businesses themselves, and stamped by the explorers who actually show up. Not Africa as the world imagines it — Africa as it is.
Three hands, counted today
Live from the catalogue. Small numbers are said, not hidden.
Four stamps
On the world’s apps the continent is a thin layer — a few pins in a few capitals. Corners is the whole map, built for it and nothing else.
The people who live a place know it best. Businesses claim their own listing; explorers leave the stamps. The map grows from the ground.
We seed the map from open data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and free-licensed media — never scraped, always attributed. The commons stays a commons.
Eight languages, a light app that installs on any phone, and a free tier for every venue. Discovery shouldn’t depend on your data plan.
Four doors, one passport
Restaurants, stays, markets, nightlife, culture and the outdoors — the corners locals actually go to, not just the ones that pay to rank.
Explore placesConcerts, festivals, holidays and happenings across the continent — surfaced by where you are, so the pulse near you is never invisible.
Browse eventsVisas at a glance, country essentials, safety and weather, and a countdown that turns a daydream into a departure date.
Plan a tripAny venue can claim its corner for free — tell its story, reach explorers, and bring a team along to run it. The map lifts the local economy with it.
List your placeCornersDrive — trusted local rides, booked and tracked — is what comes next. It is not built yet, so it is not a door.
A map that senses
A map is only the beginning. Corners is growing into a living network — one that senses what’s happening across the continent and relays it to whoever is nearby: the concert your favourite artist just announced, the holiday that turns a quiet town into a festival, the new spot that opened this week two streets away.
Put every corner of Africa on the map, and a passport to reach it in every pocket.
And it reaches both ways. For the diaspora, it’s a line home. For the traveller, it’s a way in. For the local, it’s the recognition that the place they love belongs on the map as much as anywhere else in the world. One passport, 55 countries, and a continent that finally maps itself.
Corners is a project in the making, not yet a company. Questions and proposals: the contact page.