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This site accompanies the travel guide The Rough Guide to First-Time Africa. It's not an alternative to the book, but includes samples of the contents, a blog page and the opportunity to comment on posts and pages and put questions to the authors.
Static web pages ("The book", "The authors" etc) are tabbed up on the left beneath the photo of Lamu waterfront. Blog posts all appear on the "Home" page, at the far left, with the most recent post at the top. Each blog post is tagged with subject and/or country categories, allowing you to access the posts you're interested in using the Category dropdown menu, below.
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Last 10 blog posts
- British tourist, visitor and resident deaths in Africa: 325 people in 12 months out of more than 3 million British visitors
- Surprised 2174 Brits died abroad of “unknown causes” in 2010: new figures from the FCO
- Accidents abroad: Britons killed in Africa
- Britons murdered in Africa: very few indeed
- Improved security in the Sahel: military escorts dropped in northern Niger
- Rodrigues on the radio
- KCB Safari Rally 2011 – take care on those roads!
- The Lake of Stars Festival
- Zambia travel update
- Cycling in Uganda
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Richard’s recent tweets
- Why is #wato running with this for 15 minutes headliner? Disgusting story but looked like Mail #deadcat to me. twitter.com/feistywomanken… 3 weeks ago
- RT @jamilaji: @RichardTrillo @griffithav @pritipatel Nor it seems do they care. 1 month ago
- Rwanda is a remarkable country that’s made many achievements since 1994. But freedom of speech and full democratic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- This #Rwanda plan is insane, and unworkable on every level - logistical, legal, political and moral. @griffithav an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- France is having a presidential election and nobody suggests they should be cancelled because of Ukraine. We need a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- #bbcaq @DavidTCDavies implies all Russians are complicit in the war crimes in #Ukraine. Russians are in a media loc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- Highly readable history and analysis of Ukraine and the roots of the war. Very engaging on Ukrainian society and it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- RT @JolyonMaugham: RT if you supported Remain and think Boris Johnson should apologise for comparing you to Russians invading Ukraine. 2 months ago
- Well worth reading. #911 was deliberately misrepresented as an act of war instead of a terrible crime. The self-inf… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
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Category Archives: Kenya
KCB Safari Rally 2011 – take care on those roads!
The KCB Safari Rally happens this weekend and will basically clog up much of the route between Nairobi and Namanga in Kenya– ie the northern part of the road between Nairobi and Arusha in Tanzania. If you’re heading for Amboseli, … Continue reading
Posted in Buses, Kenya, Roads, Tanzania
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Maasai Mara wildlife numbers
The BBC’s 2 June 2011 story about a “crash” in wildlife numbers in the Maasai Mara region has been widely picked up, in most cases without further comment. I don’t think we should be complacent, but I’m not getting a sense of … Continue reading
First-Time Africa: know before you go 