A Girls’ Guide to Travelling Alone
TRAVELLING WHILE BLACK, WITH NANJALA NYABOLA
Travelling While Black, with Nanjala Nyabola
Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer, political analyst and traveller based in Nairobi. In her upcoming book Travelling While Black, she shares her experiences as a black woman travelling solo around the world. What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour? And why are guidebooks written only for white people?
Nanjala has visited over 70 countries across 4 continents, and is a Harvard and Oxford alumnus. She writes for The Guardian, Al Jazeera and New African magazine to name a few.
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Talking to Nanjala, and reading her book was fascinating and eye opening. We discuss some negative, and some positive experiences of travelling solo as a Black African woman. ‘Travelling While Black’ provokes some challenging but essential conversations on unconscious bias, racism and attitudes towards Black travellers around the world.
In this episode we discuss the sheer battle of trying to travel with a weak passport, stifling bureaucracy and what it is to travel on your own as a woman of colour.
Travelling While Black
Nanjala’s book, Travelling While Black
is out on November 19th, and you can get 25% off, when you enter the code TRAVELLING25 at the checkout on the link above.
You can also watch Nanjala’s excellent TED talk from TEDxEuston last year.
I honestly think this is an essential read for anyone who is about to hit the road. And I want to say a HUGE thank you to Nanjala, and the team at Hurst Publishers for making this interview happen.
Please do let me know your thoughts on this episode in the comments below. I really want to keep the conversation going!
All images © Nanjala Nyabola
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