In This Issue… June-July ‘21
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United Airlines now Offering Direct Flights to Accra, Ghana from Washington, DC Airlines to Start Weighing Passengers to Ensure Planes not too Heavy to Fly Air Senegal to Serve Washington and New York from September 2 A First-Ever Aerial Survey to Count Some 200,000 African Elephants Award Winning Africa World Airlines Charting Vaccines in Africa Why It’s Difficult for African Travelers to Visit Other African Countries Private Consortium Takes Over SAA with 51% Stake, Gov't has 49%
Feature Stories 14 How One Woman Rediscovered Her Father’s Homeland, The Republic Of The Congo 31 Brenton Lindsey: The ‘First African American to Skydive’ Over Giza Pyramids 34 Black Doctor Turned Photographer Shares Stunning Photos of African Tribes
44 ‘Voluntourism Allows Me to Travel and Give Back at the Same Time’ 46 Meet the Woman Behind the Black-Owned Travel Company for Women Over 50 54 African Waves: Meet the Man Behind Senegal’s Black-Owned Surf Village 64 Cape Verde: The Achievements and Challenges After 46 Years of Independence 66 Child’s Grave is Earliest Known Burial Site in Africa
Travel Africa 18 10 African Islands to Know About 21 Bloomberg Offers a “New” Seven Wonders of the World - here is the African Wonder
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