Stories

Stories from walking across Africa

Stories from walking across Africa, written as the walk goes: a continent at three miles an hour, the countries on the route, and what walking through them teaches that a vehicle never could. Leon leaves for the walking route across Africa on 10 December 2026.

Walking across Africa, one country at a time

Every piece here is about the ground the walk covers: the countries on the walking route across Africa, the borders between them, the weather, the roads, and the people who live along them. They are written here rather than collected from elsewhere.

Why any of it matters

Walking is slow enough to notice things a vehicle passes at speed. That is the whole argument for doing it this way, and it is why the kindness ledger reads the way it does: small, specific, local. If the writing persuades you, you can sponsor a walk across Africa and follow where the money goes.

Written here, not collected

Nothing on this page is reprinted from anywhere else. A news headline sometimes suggests a subject worth writing about, and where that happens the source is credited and linked at the foot of the piece, but the writing is original. Reposting other people's work would be both a copyright problem and useless, since duplicated text does not rank and adds nothing a reader could not get at the source.