The main idea
My name is Tereza and I have been drawn to East Africa for more than 6 years. It started with a 3 week trip to Kenya, which then evolved into several month long trips/research trips in the following years in Kenya and Tanzania while I was studying. The last few years I was studying African Studies remotely in Hradec Kralove while working, which gave me the opportunity to spend 2 months doing a research in a Maasai village.
Africa is often represented and portrayed in extreme contrasts in tourism, but also in general. On one hand, we read (when they appear in the media) articles that often include terms such as "poverty, danger, war, famine, humanitarian crises, diseases" and on the other hand, in the majority of travel agencies' offers we can read about "paradise on earth, exoticism, untouched nature, white beaches". However, the problem I see is that there seems to be nothing in between in this narrative.
And it is the discovery of this "something in between" and the desire to break through the established prejudices against Africa that is behind the whole idea of organising trips to this region.
