While the gatekeepers of established travel writing may miss a lot of good stuff, social media remains a powerful tool for under-represented voices. A search for travel blogs by people of color may have yielded meager results just a few years ago, but we’re making up for that now, with more folks joining all the time. Here are a few of our favorites.
1. Fly Brother
A self-proclaimed aviation geek who seems to find himself in a different corner of the globe each week, Ernest White II (a.k.a. Fly Brother) never ceases to be entertaining in his delivery of updates from the road. His tone is unapologetic and his smile, killer.
2. Moving Black
In her straight-up schoolings on the crossroads of identity, belonging and backpacking, Pan-Africanist educator Abena Clarke doesn’t ever hold back. Whether she’s reporting from Martinique, Accra or her hometown of South London, you can trust that her insights are always just a tad smarter.
3. Wanjeri
Wanjeri Gakuru is a gifted talent with two fingers firmly pressed on the pulse of place. Her blog is full of accounts of her road trips across Africa. In the lyrical post, Suya, she writes from Lagos, “In a few weeks, strings of twinkling lights will be draped across the lawns. An assortment of rosy-cheeked, pot-bellied Caucasian figures will merrily stand among wooden reindeer and plastic wreathes. The Lagoon will turn into one big Coca-Cola Christmas ad.”
4. Ishq In A Backpack
This well-traveled family of four can be witty as hell when relating their adventures via posts like “Hygiene Be Damned: Everyone Should Eat Street Food,” but it’s the hilarious and spot-on The White Travel Blogger Darlings and the Organizers Who Love Them that really got us thinking and laughing out loud at the same time.
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