List of castles in Africa

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

Angola

 * Fortaleza de São Miguel (1641–1648)
 * Fort Naulila, Cunene Province
 * Fort Cuangar, Cunene Province

Egypt

 * Buhen (c. 1860 BCE)
 * Cairo Citadel (12th century)
 * Citadel of Qaitbay (15th century)

Ethiopia

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

Gambia

 * Fort James (1651)
 * Fort Jillifree, Jufureh

Ghana

 * Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast (1688–1782, April 1659 – May 1659)
 * Elmina Castle, Elmina (1482)
 * English Fort (Fort Vrendenburg), Komenda (1785–1871)
 * Fort Amsterdam, Abandze, Cormantin (1665–1721, 1785–1867)
 * Fort Apollonia, Beyin (16??–16??, 1868–1871)
 * Fort Batenstein, Butri (1656–1665, 1666–1871)
 * Fort Crêvecoeur, Accra (1649–1782, 1785–1867/8)
 * Fort Dorothea, Akwida (1687–1698, 1711–1712, 1732–1804)
 * 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 Metal Cross (Metaal Kruis), Dixcove (1868–1871)
 * Fort Nassau, present Moree (1598/1611–1664, 1665–1782, 1785–1867)
 * Fort Oranje, Sekondi (1640–1871)
 * Fort Patience (Fort Leydsaemhyt), Apam (1697–1782, 1785–1868)
 * Fort Prinzenstein, Keta
 * Fort Saint Antony, Axim (February 1642 – 1664, 1665–1671)
 * Fort San Sebastian, Shema (1637–1664, 1664–1871)
 * Fort St. Jago (Fort Conraadsburg), Elmina
 * Osu Castle (Fort Christiansborg), Osu, Accra

Kenya

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

Libya

 * Cyrene Citadel
 * El Tag, Kufra Oasis (mid 1930s)
 * Fort Capuzzo
 * Ghat Fortress
 * Sabha Citadel
 * Saraya El Hamra, Tripoli

Madagascar

 * Fort Flacourt, Tolanaro (1643)
 * Fort lalana Sylvain Roux, Île Sainte-Marie (1753)
 * Fort Rova, Majunga (1824)
 * Fort Voyron, Antananarivo (1940–1945)
 * Windsor Castle, Antsiranana (1940–1945)

Mozambique

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

Namibia

 * Duwisib Castle, Hardap Region (1909)
 * Heinitzburg Castle, Windhoek (1914)
 * Sanderburg Castle, Windhoek (1917–1919)
 * Schwerinsburg Castle, Windhoek(1890–1913)

Nigeria

 * Kajuru Castle, Kajuru, Nigeria (1981–1989)

Senegal

 * Fort Nassau
 * Fort Oranje

Sierra Leone

 * Fort Bunce (1670–1840)
 * Fort Lomboko (before 1839–1849)
 * Fort Tasso (1160–?)
 * Fort Thornton (1792)
 * Fort York (after 1672 – around 1729)

Somalia

 * Castle town of Qandala, Bari, Puntland (no longer existent)
 * Citadel ruins of Gondershe, Banaadir, Somalia
 * Dhulbahante Garesa, Eyl, Puntland
 * Dhulbahante Garesa, Taleh, Sool, Somaliland

South Africa

 * Amsterdam Battery, Western Cape (1780s)
 * Castle Kyalami, Gauteng (1990s)
 * Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666)
 * Castle on the Cliff, Western Cape (1960s)
 * Fort Chavonnes, Western Cape (1714–1725)
 * Craighross Castle, Noetzie, Western Cape
 * Coornhoop, Western Cape (1657)
 * Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape (1822–1837)
 * Fort Daspoortrand, Gauteng(1896–1898)
 * Fort Durnford, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal (1847)
 * Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape (19th century)
 * Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, Gauteng (1890s)
 * Fort Mistake, Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal
 * Fort Nongqayi, KwaZulu-Natal (1883)
 * Fort Schanskop, Gauteng (1890s)
 * Fort Wonderboompoort, Gauteng (1897)
 * Greylingstad, Mpumalanga (c. 1900)
 * King's Blockhouse, Western Cape (1795)
 * Knoetzie Castles, Western Cape (1930s)
 * Lindsay Castle, Noetzie, Western Cape
 * Lichtenstein Castle, Western Cape (1980s)
 * Voortrekker Fort, Mpumalanga (1847)

Sudan

 * Semna West Fort, Semna (Nubia), (1965–1920 BCE)

Tanzania

 * Bagamoyo Fort, Bagamoyo (c. 1860 German colonial fortified building)
 * Ikoma Fort, Serengeti National Park (19th century German colonial fort)
 * Ngome Kongwe (Old Fort), Stone Town, Zanzibar (c. 1700)
 * Old Portuguese fort, Kilwa Kisiwani (c. 1500)

Tunisia

 * Borj El Kebir, Djerba island (14th century)
 * Borj El Kebir (Mahdia), Mahdia Governorate (16th century)
 * Kasbah of Le Kef, Kef Governorate, (c. 1612)
 * Kasbah of Sfax (9th-century)
 * Kelibia Fort, Kelibia (5th century bc, 16th century)
 * Ribat of Monastir, Monastir (c. 796)
 * Ribat of Sousse, Sousse (c. 812)

Zambia

 * Lundazi Castle, Eastern Province

Zimbabwe

 * Fort Victoria, Masvingo
 * Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century)
 * Nesbitt Castle, Bulawayo