Listen to Africa is a 24,000-kilometre cycling expedition, recording African sounds and voices.
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Rebecca Sumner (Bex) is a 35 year old writer/blogger/web editor. She has written for the Sunday Times and Saturday Telegraph, blogged for Greenpeace UK and won awards for travel journalism and multimedia work. She has travelled extensively by bicycle, including cycling from London to Cape Town in 2001/02, and has worked on conservation and agriculture projects around the world.
Guinea: a dash through a dashing country The day after I last wrote, a bright orange Land Rover rolled into…
About the sound recordings part II: natural soundscapes (biophonies) Part I of our “about the sound recordings” series looked at wildlife sounds. In…
Listen to Africa on the web Today, we finally got around to creating a Facebook Page for Listen to Africa, so I thought now would be…
Into Guinea-Bissau: drug barons, dogs’ heads and difficult decisions First off, here’s a thunderstorm for you, recorded yesterday afternoon in Guinea-Bissau’s…
In praise of… “The People’s Workbook” OK, time for a new series: in praise of random things we stumble across and like (online or…
Eight things that happened in Casamance Things started happening as soon as we crossed from The Gambia into southern Senegal’s Casamance region:
Good things, like the…
Through The Gambia: “We have peanuts, so we have peace” Note: this was written last week in Soma, The Gambia, but we’ve…
Listen to Africa is Guardian Travel’s Blog of the Month! It looks like a few of you spotted this before we managed to get online to shamelessly self-promote but, for…
Baobabs and toubabs in northern Senegal Two or three days before we left St Louis, it was Eid-El-Fitr –…
A short(ish) history of St Louis One of the advantages of taking so much time off the bikes…
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