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Writer's pictureCharline Ribotta

Out Of Africa


I left France and I started the solo expedition in January 2022 to arrive in Africa in April the same year.


Today, I have left Africa.


But Africa is in me, forever. Africa transformed my life back in 2020. I knew I had to come back, and that’s why I fought to make it happen.


I haven’t been everywhere on the Planet and I’m not planning to, at all. I haven’t been everywhere but I know that Africa is the most fascinating place on Earth.


Yes: Africa is the most fascinating place on Earth.


And it will always be.


Life started in Africa. The wildlife is the most impressive and protected (yes, compared to all other continents where most wildlife disappeared!). It’s Home to the oldest and pacific civilisation in the world (the San). The landscape is gigantic, unique, and breathtaking. The tribes of Africa brought so many different cultures, traditions, languages…


People are REAL in Africa. People take their time in Africa. People sing and dance in Africa. People cry for real in Africa. People struggle for real in Africa. People love deeply in Africa. People hate when they’re hurt in Africa. People live happy in Africa. People laugh so loud in Africa. People survive in Africa…


Resilience must have been invented in Africa.


Africa is the ONLY continent where its inhabitants wear T-shirts with the African continent on it. It’s the ONLY continent where so many countries are happy to form Africa. The only continent where its people are proud to be AFRICANS.


Africa survived so much. And it’s still surviving.


But Africa is strong. And the natural resources of Africa are unbelievable. Africa needs NOTHING from outside because Africa is its own savior.


Africa is a poesy. And when you take the time to read it, it mesmerises your soul forever, with rhymes resonating deep inside.


Today, I’m out of Africa but just for a little while…


(Photos taken when I was in Pretoria, at Heleen & James’s)




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