Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Cultural Experiences
The Ochre Roads of the Atlas Mountains
Winding through Berber villages where bread is still baked in communal clay ovens and every turn of the road earns its name.
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Storytelling & travel across Africa
Exploring Africa beyond the usual travel narratives.
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Roads & Routes is a storytelling and travel platform dedicated to exploring the people, cultures, traditions, and landscapes of Africa, inviting readers to discover the continent beyond the usual travel narratives.
Where & when
Every story is pinned to a place and a moment. Explore the map to see where the road has led, then scroll the timeline to travel through it.
From the road
Personal journeys and authentic local experiences: the people, plates, and paths that make each place unmistakably itself.
Cultural Experiences
Winding through Berber villages where bread is still baked in communal clay ovens and every turn of the road earns its name.
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Food
On Zanzibar, dinner is never just dinner; it is cardamom, coconut, and three generations arguing over the right amount of pilipili.
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Interviews
A short conversation about indigo, patience, and why a cloth can hold the memory of an entire family.
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Where the road leads
A few of the places that have shaped these journeys so far, with many more roads still to come.
Marrakech, Morocco
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Dakar, Senegal
Cape Town, South Africa
People first
Portraits of the people who make each journey what it is: weavers, captains, griots, and guides.
New stories, photographs, and curated cultural resources from across the continent, delivered occasionally, never noisily.