List of castles in Africa

This list of castles in Africa includes castles, forts, and mock castles in Africa.

Angola

 * Fortaleza de São Miguel
 * Fort Naulila, Cunene Province
 * Fort Cuangar, Cunene Province

Egypt
see also List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls
 * Buhen (c.1860 BCE)
 * Cairo Citadel (12th century)
 * Citadel of Qaitbay (15th century)

Ethiopia

 * Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar (17th century)
 * Guzara Castle, Guzara (16th century)

Gambia

 * Fort James (1651)
 * Fort Jillifree, Jufureh

Ghana

 * Fort Amsterdam, Abandze, Cormantin (1665-1721, 1785-1867)
 * Fort Apollonia, Benyin (16..-16.., 1868-1871)
 * Fort Saint Antony, Axim (February 1642-1664, 1665-71)
 * Fort Batenstein, Butri (1656-1665, 1666-1871)
 * Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast (1688-1782, 16 April 1659-May 1659)
 * Fort Crêvecoeur, Accra (1649-1782, 1785-1867/8)
 * Fort Dorothea, Akwida (1687-1698, 1711-1712, 1732-1804)
 * Elmina Castle, Elmina (1482)
 * English Fort (Fort Vrendenburg), Komenda (1785-1871)
 * Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Senya Beraku (1667/1705-1782, 1785-1868)
 * Fort Hollandia (1725-1815, previously Gross-Friedrichsburg, part of the former Brandenburger Gold Coast settlements), sold to the Dutch by Prussia
 * Fort St. Jago (Fort Conraadsburg), Elmina
 * Fort Metal Cross (Metaal Kruis), Dixcove (1868-1871)
 * Fort Nassau, present Mouri (1598/1611-1664, 1665-1782, 1785-1867)
 * Fort Oranje, Sekondi (1640-1871)
 * Osu Castle (Fort Christiansborg), Osu, Accra
 * Fort Patience (Fort Leydsaemhyt), Apam (1697-1782,1785-1868)
 * Fort Prinzenstein, Keta
 * Fort San Sebastian, Shema (1637-1664,1664-1871)

Kenya

 * Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya (1593-)
 * Thimlich Ohinga, Migori, Kenya (c.500 AD - 1400 AD)

Libya

 * El Tag, Kufra Oasis (mid-1930s)
 * Fort Capuzzo

Madagascar

 * Fort Flacourt, Tolanaro, Madagascar 1643
 * Fort Rova, Majunga, Madagascar 1824
 * Fort lalana sylvain roux?, Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar 1753
 * Windsor Castle, Antsiranana, Madagascar 1940-1945
 * Fort Voyron, Antananarivo, Madagascar 1940-1945

Mozambique

 * Fort São Caetano, Sofala (1505)
 * São Sebastião (1558-1608)

Nigeria

 * Kajuru castle, Kajuru, Nigeria (1978)

Senegal

 * Fort Nassau
 * Fort Oranje

Somalia

 * Taleh
 * Eyl
 * Gondershe
 * Qandala
 * Bargal
 * Dubar
 * Garesa

South Africa

 * Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape Province (1822-1837)
 * Castle On the Cliff
 * Fort Durnford, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal (1847)
 * Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666)
 * Greylingstad, Mpumalanga (c.1900)
 * Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape (19th century)
 * Knoetzie Castles
 * Craighross Castle, Noetzie
 * Lindsay Castle, Noetzie
 * Castle Kyalami, Gauteng (1990s)
 * Fort Mistake, Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal
 * Ohrigstad, Mpumalanga

Sudan

 * Semna (Nubia), (1965-1920 BCE)

Tanzania

 * Ngome Kongwe (Old Fort), Stone Town, Zanzibar (c. 1700)
 * Kilwa Kisiwani gereza (Old Fort) Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania (c. 1500)

Zambia

 * Lundazi Castle

Zimbabwe

 * Fort Victoria (Masvingo)
 * Great Zimbabwe (11th-15th century)
 * Nesbitt Castle (Bulawayo)
 * The Castle (Vumba)