Africa's capital map carries some quirks that surprise even regular geography players. A handful of countries have quietly moved their seat of government in living memory; others run multiple capitals at once, splitting branches of government between cities. A few capitals share their name with the country itself, and the largest, most well-known city isn't always the political one — the official capital is sometimes a planned, purpose-built city in the interior, far from the coastal commercial centre.

The 54 capitals cluster by region: the Mediterranean north, the West African coast, the Horn, the Great Lakes, the southern cone, and the Indian Ocean island states. North African capitals share Arab and Islamic naming conventions; the East African highlands feature several capitals at altitude; several West African coastal capitals string almost in a line from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Guinea.

Pick a mode and start. Type-in is the deep-end recall mode; multiple choice is the warm-up; tile select sorts the continent's capitals from distractor capitals under the clock; match pairs each capital to its country across regional rounds; click-the-map asks you to click the country whose capital is shown. Every mode counts toward your topic mastery.