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Cairo to Kenya, overland through East Africa 1983.<\/h2>\n

For some forgotten reason I had a couple of sketchbooks with me but no camera, possibly because I didn’t own a camera at the time.<\/p>\n

I flew to Cairo from Athens and made my way south through Egypt, Sudan, Zaire, Uganda to Kenya and the coast. It took about 3 months. I flew home from Nairobi. It was a fantastic trip and I’m really glad I did a few drawings along the way.<\/p>\n

Cairo was a complete culture shock for a young lad from the suburbs of Nottingham.<\/p>\n

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I spent a few days in the Red Sea town of Hurghada, where falafels were the street food of choice.<\/p>\n

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I killed some time waiting for the ferry in Aswan by drawing a few locals.<\/p>\n

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This guy was so impressed he invited me to a wedding that evening where I was encouraged to draw portraits of the guests. The guests kept their portraits so I don’t have a record of them.<\/p>\n

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Omdurman is one of the three towns around the confluence of the Nile tributaries at Khartoum. It’s a hot, sandy place.<\/p>\n

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The Sudanese are rightly renowned for their hospitality and I had a great time staying as a house guest around the South in the towns of Wei, Yambio & Yei.<\/p>\n

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This Gu Gu was used to store the peanut harvest.<\/p>\n

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I think these drawings were done in the market at Lubero, on the road along Zaire’s Eastern border.<\/p>\n

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I spent a few days in Goma, which included a night on Nyragongo Volcano. This is the street in Goma where I stayed.<\/p>\n

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Swahili women on the island of Lamu.<\/p>\n

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Cairo to Kenya, overland through East Africa 1983. For some forgotten reason I had a couple of sketchbooks with me but no camera, possibly because I didn’t own a camera at the time. I flew to Cairo from Athens and made my way south through Egypt, Sudan, Zaire, Uganda to Kenya and the coast. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,253,51],"tags":[617,612,626,613,616,627,615,629,619,628,625,620,624,618,614,621,622,623],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-cities","category-rural","tag-aswan","tag-cairo","tag-congo","tag-egypt","tag-fafafel","tag-goma","tag-hurghada","tag-kenya","tag-khartoum","tag-lamu","tag-lubero","tag-omdurman","tag-peanut","tag-sudan","tag-tahir-square","tag-tea","tag-yambio","tag-yei"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drawingportfolio.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}