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Live on Zoom · Saturday 29 August · 7:30 PM EAT

From One Flight to 100 Countries

One Kenyan woman. One passport. One hundred countries. Maria Kamau tells you how it actually happened, and what it really costs.

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Maria Kamau with her arms raised in Sao Tome and Principe, her hundredth country, with Pico Cao Grande behind her
100Countries visited
São ToméThe hundredth
NairobiWhere it all started
The story

It started with one flight.

Not an inheritance. Not a sponsorship. Not a job that flew her around the world. One ordinary flight out of Nairobi, and then a decision to keep going.

Ninety-nine countries later she was standing in Malabo. On number one hundred she landed in São Tomé and Príncipe, made her way out to the foot of Pico Cão Grande, and put her arms in the air.

Most people assume a story like this belongs to somebody with money, a different passport, or nothing to lose. On 29 August, Maria walks through how it was actually done.

Maria Kamau sitting with her arms outstretched on an empty palm-lined road in Sao Tome
One hundred stamps

Where the passport has been

Fishing boat on a beach in Sao Tome and PrincipeMaria Kamau on the Great Wall of ChinaMaria Kamau kayaking through a lit caveMaria Kamau in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, her ninety-ninth countryMaria Kamau beside a colonial lighthouseMaria Kamau at desert rock formations
The 90 minutes

What we are going to get into

The conversation people keep asking her for in the DMs, in one sitting, live.

  • How do you pay for one hundred countries without a foreign salary?
  • What does an African passport actually change, and what does it not?
  • The trips that went wrong, and what they cost to put right.
  • Where to point your very first flight if you are starting from Nairobi.
Maria Kamau at a coastal beach town
Your host

Maria Kamau, known as Mkay

Travel writer, travel coach, and the woman behind Travel with Mkay.

Based in Nairobi, Maria has spent years turning the question “how do you afford it?” into a practical answer for other African travellers. She writes about the places most itineraries skip, and coaches people through their own first trips.

This August she completed her hundredth country. This session is the first time she is telling the whole arc of it in one go.

The community

People Mkay has coached to travel with confidence

Lilian, coached by Maria Kamau
Lilian
Michael, coached by Maria Kamau
Michael
Sophie, coached by Maria Kamau
Sophie
Suzanne, coached by Maria Kamau
Suzanne
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