# 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