There he meets a friend he has portrayed in fiction as Mrs. Stitch, and they go sightseeing, particularly looking at the marble tombs in the Campo Santo (cemetery).
He goes by aeroplane to visit the island of Kilwa Kisiwani and describes the remains of the medieval Arab town, where there are the Sultan's palace and ruined mosques.
He takes a trip to the area in the Dodoma Region where there was once a groundnut scheme, and describes this failed project of the late 1940s to cultivate peanuts; he sees the abandoned buildings.
He visits Serima Mission, a church in the diocese of Gwelo, where he meets Fr John Groeber, its architect.
Cyril Connolly wrote: "A Tourist in Africa is quite the thinnest piece of book-making which Mr. Waugh has undertaken and must be viewed in relation to the labours on Father Ronald Knox which preceded it.