Wasafiri Africa Podcast

With a population of over 9 million people, Luanda is the thriving oil-fed capital of Angola. Home to the Kimbundu ethnic group, the city which was once called the Paris of Africa has Portuguese as the official language. Founded in 1576, Luanda became the administrative center of the Portuguese colony in 1627 and bears the torrid distinction of being a major outlet for slave traffic to Brazil. Now...

Kirinyaga County, is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya. A scared focal point for the Agikuyu people the mountain was known as Kirinyaga and the name change happened when the word was lost in translation.  When from a far off, the first Europeans saw the snowy peaks straddling the Equator, the mountain was introduced to them as KayEnyA, by the Akamba. They pronounced it differently from...

eTyhume eMajwarheni is in the Nonkobe local municipality, Amathole District, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The village gets its name from the Tyhume river  which flows from Hogsback Mountains on its journey to the Indian Ocean, and borders most of the grounds of Fort Hare University.  Founded in 1916 and originally called The South African Native College, the University of Fort Hare has bee...

Podcast Preview In this preview episode, Ruth Kamau introduces Wasafiri Africa—a podcast that travels across the continent gathering stories of resilience, creativity and transformation. Ruth reflects on her lifelong love for the continent, tracing it back to Kenya's independence era when seventeen African nations claimed their freedom in the 1960s alone. She explores how Kiswahili has become a un...