Originally from the UK and Italy, Oscar Scafidi (youtube.com/c/ScafidiTravels) has lived, worked and travelled in more than thirty African countries – including spending five years as a history teacher in Angola. A travel writer, political risk consultant and international educator, Scafidi has authored Bradt’s guidebooks to Tunisia, Angola and Equatorial Guinea; his wider travel journalism focuses on intriguing and often difficult destinations such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Timor Leste. Scafidi has also written a travel narrative, Kayak the Kwanza, about his Guinness World Record-setting source-to-sea navigation of Angola’s longest river, the Kwanza, a 32-day journey of over 1,300km: a documentary film can be viewed at kayakthekwanza.com. In May 2022 he completed the first source-to-sea descent of Madagascar’s longest river, the Mangoky. He currently lives in Antananarivo, Madagascar.