This section lists the recorded ships' arrival and departure dates for East, West and South African ports - the West African coast from Tangier to the Cape and the East African coast from Aden to the Cape. Often it is difficult to trace a vessel's movements along the African coast since so many ships travelled independently, and so do not appear in the convoy database, yet they account for about 70% of the port records.

For convenience, we are including the Azores, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands in this section.

African ports in the database on November 20, 2008 16:33 GMT
Abon, Abonnema, Accra, Aden, Ango Ango, Angra, Apapa, Azores, Bathurst, Beira, Berbera, Boma, Burutu, Calabar, Cape Coast, Cape Verde Islands, Capetown, Casablanca, Conakry, Congo River, Dagema, Dahomey, Dakar, Dar, Djibouti, Duala, Durban, East London, Fayal, Forcados, Freetown, Grand Bassa, Guardafui, Horta, Keta, Kilindini, Kismayu, Konakry, Kotonou, Kribi, Lagos, Las Palmas, Libreville, Lindi, Lobito, Lome, Lourenco Marques, Luanda, Luderitz Bay, Lumbo, Madeira, Mahe, Marshall, Massawa, Matabi, Mogadishu, Mogador, Mombasa, Monrovia, Mossel Bay, Op. Menace, Opobo, Pepel, Plaia, Pointe Noir, Port Bouett, Port Elizabeth, Port Etienne, Port Gentil, Port Harcourt, Port Lyautey, Port Sudan, Quelimane, Safi, Salved, Sapele, Sherbro, Sherbro Island, Socotra, St Helena, St Michaels, St. Louis, St.Vincent C.V.I., Table Bay, Tabu, Takoradi, Tana, Tanga, Tangier, Teneriffe, Terceira, Victoria, Nigeria, Walvis Bay, Warri, Winneba, Zanzibar.   
96 ports in African database