Five years on the road in Africa: how Lerato Mogoatlhe became a travel writer
SOUTH African journalist Lerato Mogoatlhe set off for three months in West Africa. She ended up drifting across the continent for five years. In 2019 she wrote a book about her travels, called Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith. As a scholar of, among other areas, African travel writing and mobility, I chatted to Mogoatlhe about travelling solo, queer and black. JANET REMMINGTON, Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York Janet Remmington: In reflecting on the book, you write that your first encounters with countries that would become the story of…