About Katja Cof

Katja, cultural anthropologist, has been intensely travelling for last 8 years and visited over 40 countries so far. She is deeply in love with everything related to Africa. She traveled across Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, The Gambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya mostly alone, did overland from Slovenia through Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania to Senegal as well as she did long term anthropological fieldwork in Northern Ghana. She plans to be connected with her favourite continent in different ways and wishes to visit Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Madagascar and Ethiopia in future. All photos in this post by Katja Cof.
28 07, 2015

Guide to Public Transport in Africa

By |2018-11-16T08:20:01+02:00July 28th, 2015|Categories: Mini Guides|Comments Off on Guide to Public Transport in Africa

Getting Around Africa on Public Transport is Fun! Most of travellers who have ever been to Africa would agree that if you want to have an authentic experience there, you should use public transport. It is the cheapest way of getting around and it is one of the simplest way to get in contact with [...]

25 07, 2015

Maasai Jumping Dance

By |2018-11-22T13:49:01+02:00July 25th, 2015|Categories: Culture, Kenya, Tanzania, Tribes|Comments Off on Maasai Jumping Dance

Tribal Dance Culture of Maasai People Masai people are probably one of the most known, famous and picturesque ethnic group in Africa. They are settled in spacious steppes of Kenya and northern Tanzania. They keep on loyalty of their tradition and there is much presented a romantic image of an »authentic African tribe«. Although, it [...]

19 07, 2015

Volunteering in Africa

By |2018-11-16T08:03:51+02:00July 19th, 2015|Categories: Featured, Mini Guides|Comments Off on Volunteering in Africa

Think Twice Before Volunteering in Africa Before I went to Uganda for volunteering and for a research on volunteer tourism for my thesis at the same time, I had many hesitations. Volunteering in Africa, the way it is nowadays, is very problematical. Organizations in many cases do not act deliberately but only in their own [...]

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