Listen to Africa is a 24,000-kilometre cycling expedition, recording African sounds and voices.
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Gallery: Sierra Leone Cycling through sweet Sierra Leone via Freetown, Shenge, Kenema, Bo and Tiwai Island. Photography by Bex Sumner and Huw Williams,…
Gallery: Guinea-Bissau and Guinea (Conakry) The journey through Guinea-Bissau and Guinea (Conakry). In this stretch, we travelled by bike, boat and, because of the unstable…
Wildlife: Yellow-casqued Hornbill This is the first of many recordings we made on the beautiful Tiwai Island, one of Sierra Leone’s largest inland…
Soundscape: Chain ferry to Guinea We reached the river that demarcates the Guinea-Bissau / Guinea border between Pitche and Foula Mouri early, while wisps of…
A walk on Orango (flip-flops vs sandals) In place of the sounds of the salt-water hippos we hoped to record on Guinea-Bissau’s Orango Island (but couldn’t afford…
Wandy the bird watcher Wandy Toure is a bird watcher, guide and general legend at Tendaba Camp in The Gambia. Here, he tells us…
Soundscape: Morning at Tendaba We recorded this shortly before recording Life in the mangroves – and standing just a few metres away, in the…
Hoop and stick We were walking back from a bird watching tour with a local guide and another pair of touring cyclists near…
Gallery: Faces of the Bijagos Black and white portraits taken during boat journeys around the Bijagos islands off Guinea-Bissau – including Orango and Bubaque islands….
Soundscape: Island waves We recorded this at low tide on Orango island – a stunning and sparsely populated island of deserted beaches and…
