Listen to Africa is a 24,000-kilometre cycling expedition, recording African sounds and voices.
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Through The Gambia: “We have peanuts, so we have peace” Two weeks in The Gambia; from Barra’s brothels and Banjul’s bumsters to red roads and rural rivers.
Baobabs and toubabs in northern Senegal After the end of Ramadan in St Louis, we set off for a slow, eight day cycle through rural Senegal’s backroads, passing through savannah and peanut farms, villages and holy cities, towards the Gambian border.
A short(ish) history of St Louis One way or another, we’ve spent quite a bit of time in St Louis, a tiny island in the north of Senegal. As the end of Ramadan approaches, Bex looks at the city past and present.
Spotlight: all about argan The first in a series of “spotlights” on people, projects and ideas that we find inspiring. This one’s on the argan tree, the women’s cooperatives who extract oil from it, and the tree’s importance in preventing desertification.
Thoughts from Sidi Ifni: tourism, climate change and roadside encounters We’re now in a small town overlooking the sea at the edge of the desert where the electric lights flicker and goat meat sizzling on charcoal sends drifts of smoke across the streets at night.
Cycling through a changing country 
I’m writing this on the balcony of a small apartment in Agadir, southern Morocco. I have geraniums around me and palm trees in front of me and, just inside, there’s a cool, breezy apartment – with a bath! And a fridge!
