Category: Travel writing
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Noo Saro-Wiwa wins at Edward Stanford Travel Book Awards 2025
Noo Saro-Wiwa won travel book of the year at the Edward Stanford Travel Book Awards 2025 on Thursday, March 6, 2025. The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, presented by Viking Cruises, celebrate the world’s best travel writers. The UK-based prize comprises the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, the Viking Award for Fiction with…
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Maskarm Haile’s “Abyssinian Nomad” multiple venue Nairobi tour.
Maskarm Haile did a series of readings in several venues in Nairobi for her debut travel book Abyssinian Nomad starting on March 27, 2019. Maskarm Haile is a Certified Life/Leadership Coach, Emotion Code, and Combination practitioner. The Ethiopian has lived and worked in more than ten countries around several continents. In 2008, she backpacked from…
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Writers join in Invisible Borders Trans-African project 2018.
Invisible Borders Trans-African project 2018 heads from Lagos to Maputo over the dates of 20 August, 2018 – 23 November 2018. The writers who join the trip this year are Yinka Elujoba, Tope Salaudeen-Adégòkè, Barbara Wanjala, and Katleho Kano Shoro. The Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation has organised road trips from Lagos to other parts of…
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Noo Saro-Wiwa travel book “Looking for Transwonderland” now in Italian
Travel writing the world over has been a genre that seems to belong to one type of person; white, male, and privileged. Voices that are not from this demographic talking about what you can see from around the world in book form are far and few between. This is why when you hear of any…
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Why TIA’s ‘We need new stories’ is a pile of unmentionable
This morning I spent time reading a two-part series from ThisIsAfrica.me, a website that does a lot of writing about the identity of Africans. The title of the series written by Rachel Hamada is “We need new stories”. The main thrust of the series, as I read it, is that there is a need to…