Last year Kingsley and his team were able to embrace their last five African countries. The journey took them to Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, The Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea, but then they got back to find that Mama Afrika was about to give birth to the newest country on earth. So they loaded up the Landies and took a rubber duck journey down the Nile from below the Murchison Falls to Juba in time for the independence celebrations in South Sudan.

Now, the latest news from modern-day adventurer Kingsley Holgate reads…

It’s time to turn that Land Rover key again and head off on another great humanitarian adventure – this time it’s to follow the entire African Rift Valley from Djibouti on the Horn of Africa to the base of Gorongosa Mountain in Mozambique. It will be an exciting yearlong geographic journey with the best of wildlife, nomadic tribes, lakes, rivers, mountains and volcanoes, whilst continuing our humanitarian links of malaria prevention through the distribution of life saving mosquito nets, Rite to Sight spectacles for the poor sighted and LifeStraws for water purification.

We'll keep you posted with regular dispatches from the Great African Rift Valley.
Afrika: Dispatches From the Outside Edge