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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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British tourist, visitor and resident deaths in Africa: 325 people in 12 months out of more than 3 million British visitors
Below are the full country-by-country breakdowns of the African figures broken out of the FCO’s recent “British Behaviour Abroad” report. As explained in previous posts, the original published report contained very broad-brush data. I wanted to have the real figures, … Continue reading
Surprised 2174 Brits died abroad of “unknown causes” in 2010: new figures from the FCO
More data from the FCO, going into further detail about the figures published in their “British Behaviour Abroad” report, covering consular activity between March 2010 and March 2011. It took so long to get a breakdown of the 62 murders that … Continue reading
Accidents abroad: Britons killed in Africa
Full marks to the FCO press office for getting back to me so quickly on my latest request to unpick the broad-brush data in their “British Behaviour Abroad” report – this time with a country-by-country breakdown of the 386 Britons … Continue reading
Cycling in Uganda
Bikes are such a great way of travelling in Africa – not least because you get to travel the way most local people do, under your own steam (and sweat) – that it’s not surprising it’s an increasingly popular way … Continue reading
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First-Time Africa is published on 1 April 2011
I’m delighted that the new Rough Guide: First-Time Africa will be published on 1 April 2011.
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First-Time Africa: know before you go 