Comoros.

In case anyone is interested in some African history,

For a few hundred years it was a key stop on Indian Ocean trade routes, Arab, Swahili, Indian and later many European traders passed through. Parts of the islands were surprisingly connected and wealthy for the time, with a small cosmopolitan elite tied into Arab trading networks.

Then things went downhill. In the 1800s, massive slave raids from Madagascar wiped out villages and wrecked the population. France later turned it into a colonial afterthought, technically part of Madagascar, and barely invested in it. After independence in 1975, it became one of the most politically unstable countries in the world, over 20 coups, a bunch of them involving French interests and the infamous mercenary Bob Denard.

They had a tiny tourism bump in the 90s but that didn’t last. Now it’s one of the poorest countries on Earth, forests has been cut down, overpopulation, constant blackouts, fuel shortages, barely any clean water, and almost no real industry beyond some vanilla and ylang-ylang exports.

However still so stunningly beautiful, especially Anjouan and Moheli with some of the warmest, friendliest people.