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Road trips from Tunis: south into the Sahara

Join Oscar Scafidi on a journey through this lunar landscape while researching our first ever guidebook to the country.
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Oscar Scafidi is originally from the UK and Italy and spent five years living and working in Luanda, Angola as a history teacher. Before this he was based in Khartoum, Sudan. When not teaching, Oscar also writes travel journalism focusing on difficult destinations, such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia and East Timor. Some of his work can be found on Sean Rorison’s website Polo’s Bastards (www.polosbastards.com). In 2016 Oscar wrote the first English language guidebook to Equatorial Guinea, as well as completing the first ever source to sea navigation of Angola's River Kwanza. Details of the expedition, including a documentary film of the 32 day journey, can be found on his website www.kayakthekwanza.com.

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Kwanza river expedition

We chat to Oscar Scafidi, author of our Equatorial Guinea guidebook, about his upcoming expedition along Angola’s longest river.

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Equatorial Guinea press release

Read the press release for our new Equatorial Guinea guidebook by Oscar Scafidi.

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Interview with Oscar Scafidi

We chat to Oscar Scafidi, author of our Equatorial Guinea guidebook, about the challenges of travelling to the country and the delights that await visitors. 

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Eric the Eel

Equatorial Guinea’s Olympic hero was unable to swim eight months before Sydney 2000, but he took to it like a duck (or eel) to water.

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Do-it-yourself walking tour

Discover Malabo’s hidden colonial sites with our walking tour.

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