I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
I've been to North Africa many times.
I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.