Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever?

Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

Author: Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 05/01/2021
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781787383821
ISBN10: 1787383822
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Special Interest | General
- Social Science | Race & Ethnic Relations
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology and politics, as well as migration and human mobility. A constant traveller, at the time of writing she has visited over seventy countries across four continents.