Travel story about Dakar - New work for Msafiri Magazine

For this month’s Msafiri, the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways, I created the ‘lead travel story’ about Dakar, Senegal, focusing on where to eat, sleep and stay. Above, you can read how I described my trip to the Senegalese capital (some photos are mine, too). To read the whole issue of Msafiri, you can click here!

If you’d like to read more travel stories, you can click here for my piece on Ethiopia (including Lalibela, Gondar, Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar) or click here for my Uganda travel story (focusing on Kampala, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwindi).

Front page portfolio feature: Kibera Stories photographer Brian Otieno

For Msafiri, the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways, I have interviewed Brian Otieno, arguably one of Nairobi’s most talented photographers. Brian, who is also known as ‘Storitellah’ and is the main man behind the much awarded Kibera Stories account, told me why he photographs Kibera in the way he does. As he was born in the huge Nairobi slum, he has a unique perspective that he shares with the world through social media outlets like Instagram.

“When I document a fire outbreak or houses that were washed away by the rains, people don’t get angry at me and my camera; they want their plight to be documented because maybe someone out there will want to extend a helping hand. That’s the power of photography: it can change lives.”

You can read the interview here, on the website of KQ’s Msafiri! If you’d like to read more about my work for Msafiri, you can check out this blogpost about my cover shot for the November 2018 edition, click here to read my Ethiopia travel story or read my recent Uganda travel story here.

My Uganda cover story in Msafiri, the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways

You can now read my ten-page travel story about Uganda in the inflight magazine of Kenya Airways: Msafiri! The piece features an off-trail safari with Uganda Carnivores doctor Ludwig Siefert, a not-so-successful chimpanzee trek in Kalinzu and a spectacular trip to the mountain gorillas of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. I'm also providing some tips on where to eat, where to stay and which spots in Kampala and Entebbe you shouldn't miss. Nearly all photographs were also taken by me!

You can read the whole issue of Msafiri magazine through this link. If you’d like to read more about my work for Msafiri, you can check out this blogpost about my cover shot for the November 2018 edition, or click here to read my Ethiopia travel story of a couple of months ago.

Cover image of Msafiri Magazine

The cover of this month’s edition of Kenya Airways inflight magazine Msafiri boasts one of my pictures! On the photo I took in the Masai Mara, a coalition of cheetahs rests under an acacia tree. Inside the magazine, there’s some more of my photography of the Masai Mara and New York City. The cover picture is also right next to an introduction by Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta. I’m very proud to have my pictures published alongside photos of renowned photographers like Michael Poliza and Philip Lee Harvey!

I’ve also written a lot of texts for this edition of the magazine, like a Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor (author of Who Fears Death, which will be turned into a very cool HBO series by George R.R. Martin) about her Black Panther comic Shuri and an interview with Tshidi Manye, who has been playing the Lion King role of Rafiki for over 17 years on Broadway. You can read all that and more via these (1) two (2) links.

To read more about the travel story about Ethiopia I have written earlier for Msafiri, check out my earlier blogpost.

Kenya Airways magazine Msafiri: read my Ethiopia travel story

For their inflight magazine Msafiri, airliner Kenya Airways asked me to write a travel story about our trip to the Ethiopian Amhara region, where Saskia and I traveled not only to the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, but also the world-famous monolithic churches of Lalibela, the impressive castles of Gondar and the laidback Lake Tana town of Bahir Dar. You can read the ten pages with my photography (i.a.) above, or download the whole PDF of Msafiri Magazine here (also check out the photo book feature of my photo book Streets of New York, on page 69!).