East Africa – I'm Black & I Travel

January 14, 2018January 14, 2018 imblacknitravel Comment is Closed

ETHIOPIA: Faith still moves mountains

A Canadian university professor has discovered that the ancient practice of carving Christian churches from solid rock, a skill thought lost for half a millennium, is still alive in Ethiopia…but only just. While in Ethiopia for the first time last summer, I saw four of the 11 famed rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. It’s perhaps the […]

September 19, 2017December 9, 2017 imblacknitravel Comment is Closed

A grand tour of Africa? Yes

With a huge impetus from the African Union, an epic journey covering the length of the Mother Continent is going to become a practical reality in 2018. Back in the 1600s, when Europeans were busily “discovering” lands already populated by peoples of color, well-to-do families would send their kids on on a journey through Europe […]

ETHIOPIA: Africa’s Jerusalem

September 4, 2017September 24, 2017 imblacknitravel Comment is Closed

[smartslider3 slider=2] The rock-hewn churches of Ethiopia are solid proof that Black people have always been more than “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Lalibela is a village of maybe 30,000 souls, wedged into the steep, rugged mountains of northern Ethiopia. If it’s not at or near the top of your bucket list of […]

Africa: The Brazilian Connection

August 5, 2017August 5, 2017 imblacknitravel Comment is Closed

The flow of culture between The Mother Continent and South America’s largest country runs both ways. Wherever you set foot there and for as long as you live, Africa will always find ways to amaze and surprise you. The latest surprise to me came as I was preparing information on a nine-day tour next year […]