What makes Eswatini tick? Let’s back up. What’s Eswatini? Is that some kinda electronic stuff, like email? You know, electronic mail… Okay, cut the bull… Eswatini is the new name of Swaziland, one of the few remaining absolute kingdoms in the world today. Sometime in April 2018, the King announced that the country was going to drop its…
February 7, 2017… Up early at about 07:10, freshened up and got ready for the day. We were scheduled to leave for the airport at 09:00 and fly a light aircraft out to Kidepo Valley National Park where we were to spend the next two days. Nina, the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) rep was waiting…
June 10, 2016… Got an early morning wake up call, but I still turned up late and missed the Safari walk. So I went for a morning game drive instead with Lisa, Richard, Khomotso and one or two other people, hoping to see some lions. Somehow the lions heard we were coming and decided to…
With the 4th Accra Weizo about a month away, the organisers have called on the general public to send in their nominees for the Balafon West Africa Travel Awards. Accra Weizo was launched four years ago with the vision to turn West Africa with its 15 countries and 380 million people into a Domestic Tourism Destination. Twenty five 25 speakers drawn from…
So the story continues of my friend @nadinescakesng‘s honeymoon in Zanzibar… ***** The next day, we were scheduled to visit Kizimkazi, a fishing village in the southern part of Zanzibar (Stone Town is on the West Coast).The village is famous for activities like snorkeling and swimming with dolphins. Our hotel manager made all the arrangements for…
February 6, 2017: Nkiru (Marketing Lead) and I boarded a RwandAir flight WB 203 to Kigali en-route Entebbe for the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo POATE 2017 scheduled for the 17th to 19th of February in Kampala, Uganda. There wasn’t any drama on the flight – not that I expected any. I mean what kind of drama does anyone…
PRESS RELEASE: MY FAREWELL NOTE ON LEAVING AFRO TOURISM W/A LTD Lagos, Nigeria. June 5, 2018 A few days after winning an unprecedented treble of the UEFA Champions’ League as coach of the Los Merengues, former French footballer and World Cup winner, Zinedine Zidane shook the sporting world by announcing his resignation. It was totally…
June 9, 2016… An early wake up call got us out of bed at 06:30 and we made our way to the waterfront. A cruise ship was awaiting us and we got on-board for breakfast on a sunrise cruise on Lake Kariba. Formed by the Kariba Dam which was built between 1956 and 1959, Lake Kariba is…
Back in 1908, a young Winston Churchill dubbed Uganda as the Pearl of Africa in his book My African Journey, but at some point in the nation’s existence it seemed that very pearl was being trampled underfoot during the tyranny of Idi Amin and the wars that ensued afterwards. However, those days are in the distant past now…
Addis Ababa, 18 May 2018 Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that it will launch thrice weekly flights to Jakarta, Indonesia as of July 17, 2018. Member of the G-20, Indonesia, is the world’s 4th most populous nation and 10th largest economy in the…
