Ian’s love affair with Africa began more than 25 years ago. Since then, he has explored 40 of the continent’s 54 nations, visiting many on more than one occasion. He’s racked up nearly 2.5 years of travel in Africa, traversing its highways, byways, and national parks largely solo and by public forms of transport.
Prior to his career in travel writing Ian was a National Geographic Traveller travel writing competition runner-up. Since then he has been nominated for many prestigious travel writing awards. His blog guides have been studied at A level English. An experienced Africa travel writer, he has an in-depth knowledge of Africa’s top destinations, emerging ports of call, history, culture, and geography, as well as of Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Thanks in part to a good level of conversational French, his portfolio spans the continent and includes writing on Comoros, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Egypt, South Africa, Gabon, Angola, Tunisia, Cameroon, Morocco, Botswana, Mauritius, Saint Helena, and the Maldives among many others.
Although Ian specialises in Africa coverage, he is a skilled all-round travel writer and content writer focussing on travel. As such, Ian has written about everywhere from Bangladesh and the Inner Hebrides of Scotland to downtown Chicago and the ski slopes of Chamonix for the likes of BBC Travel, City AM, The i, GoCity, Independent and Environment Journal, for which his writing was nominated for Travel Blog Post of the Year at the British Guild of Travel Writers Members’ Excellence Awards.
