“I first met extreme adventures as a young boy on the pages of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki Expedition – adventures I’m yet to live, but it imprinted on me the need to map our footprints. I take solace in the knowledge that each step always opens a door. Travel writing, for me, is to regain the freedom to see for myself, to drift beyond stifling prescriptions and escape the spectacle of prepackaged news about Africa. It is to welcome a new sense of seeing, to make baby steps to new imaginaries and peculiarities of places, spaces, and faces.”