Author profile

Originally from the UK and Italy, Oscar Scafidi (youtube.com/c/ScafidiTravels; lnk.bio/ScafidiTravels) has lived, worked and travelled in 38 African countries – including five years as a teacher in Angola and three in Tunisia, experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic while writing Bradt’s first guidebook to the country. A travel writer, political risk consultant and international educator, Scafidi has authored two further Bradt guidebooks, to Angola and Equatorial Guinea; his wider travel journalism focuses on intriguing, often difficult and frequently post-conflict destinations such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Timor Leste, and on emerging ecotourism and sustainable tourism opportunities. Additionally, Scafidi has written two travel narratives: 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 (kayakthekwanza.com) and Kayak the Mangoky, about the first source-to-sea descent of Madagascar’s longest river, in 2022. He currently lives in Ethiopia.