Solving Africa began as a traveling project by a freshly grad-schooled twenty-something-year-old who decided it was time to travel and get to know the land of his ancestry. On the spur of the moment and with low expectations, he created the site, www.solvingafrica.com, and asked friends and strangers to fund his trip to Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria. Within a week, the donations started and the journey began before he could change his mind.
The book recounting his experience on this journey will be completed in fall 2010 and it looks at the role that individuals can and are having in changing the African continent. It aims not just to entertain as a collection of stories, but also to spark a thought revolution in the way people address Africa’s development.