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The Conversation: Women writing about travel

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Lola Akinmade Akerstrom and Hilary Bradt

06/05/2024 GMT

Women writing about travel

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Travel writers from the UK and Nigeria talk about exploring new places

Ella Al-Shamahi talks to travel writers Hilary Bradt and Lola Akinmade Åkerström a to discover more about their adventures in far-flung places.

A British explorer who transformed travel and travel writing and a Nigerian novelist and travel blogger talk to Ella Al-Shamahi about their adventures around the world.

Hilary Bradt co-founded the world's largest independently owned guidebook publisher fifty years ago. She’s been inspiring travellers to go off the beaten track ever since, publishing guides to destinations where no guidebook previously existed, like Uganda, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Eritrea and Madagascar.

Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian travel storyteller, photographer, speaker and an international author whose books are published in 18 languages. She lives in Sweden, teaches travel writing and is the current editor-in-chief for Slow Travel Stockholm.

Produced by Jane Thurlow

(Image: (L) Lola Akinmade Åkerström, credit Jessica Wikström. (R) Hilary Bradt, credit Alex Graeme.)

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