Oscar Scafidi is a teacher, travel writer and political risk consultant with a focus on Lusophone Africa.
In 2016, he completed the first ever source-to-sea navigation of Angola’s River Kwanza with his friend Alfy Weston.
A documentary film of the 33-day journey, Kayak the Kwanza, is available to view here.
In the final stage of the journey, Oscar and Alfy were detained by security forces, initially accused of spying on a hydroelectric installation, and then suspected of diamond smuggling. Oscar spoke to WHEN IT HITS THE FAN about the experience.
Oscar‘s latest project is to write the first English-language guidebook to Tunisia to be published in nearly a decade. It will be released in early 2022 by Bradt Travel Guides.
He is also documenting his adventures across Tunisia for his YouTube channel.
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