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Blog posted by bex on Jan 17th, 2010Well, we’ve been on the road for over ten months now and, during that time, we’ve made ourselves at home…
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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.
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Guinea: a dash through a dashing country
Blog posted by bex on Nov 22nd, 2009
The ferry to Guinea. © Listen to Africa
The day after I last wrote, a bright orange Land Rover rolled into…
About the sound recordings part II: natural soundscapes (biophonies)
Blog posted by bex on Nov 13th, 2009
Lagoon in Senegal. © Listen to Africa
Part I of our “about the sound recordings” series looked at wildlife sounds. In…
Listen to Africa on the web
Blog posted by bex on Nov 12th, 2009
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
Blog posted by bex on Nov 3rd, 2009
Street scene in Bula, Guinea-Bissau. © Listen to Africa
First off, here’s a thunderstorm for you, recorded yesterday afternoon in Guinea-Bissau’s…
In praise of… “The People’s Workbook”
Blog posted by bex on Nov 2nd, 2009
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
Blog posted by bex on Nov 2nd, 2009
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”
Blog posted by bex on Oct 22nd, 2009
Jetty detail, the River Gambia. © Listen to Africa
Note: this was written last week in Soma, The Gambia, but we’ve…
Listen to Africa is Guardian Travel’s Blog of the Month!
Blog posted by bex on Oct 7th, 2009
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
Blog posted by bex on Oct 5th, 2009
Bikes by the roadside. © Listen to Africa
Two or three days before we left St Louis, it was Eid-El-Fitr –…