ZIMBABWEAN citizen Tapiwa Muzawazi is expected to team up with five fellow Africans as they propose to travel around 51 countries across the world in a tour dubbed “African Records World Expedition”.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO OWN CORRESPONDENT
The tour, which is the brainchild of Muzawazi, is estimated to be conducted over a period of 14 months and a length of 60 000 kilometres.
Muzawazi, who is going to leave the country by road on a date yet to be announced, will be joined on the tour by four other colleagues from Senegal, South Africa, Kenya and Morocco.
During the tour, Muzawazi said he will break the borders by using the name Kwame from one of Africa’s greatest leaders Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana whom he said he draws inspiration from.
“Preparations of this road journey around the world, which is going to be the first of its kind as Africans endeavour to navigate around the earth promoting our country and the Book of African Records are going smoothly,” Muzawazi said.
“The expedition seeks to create diverse perspectives on Africa to serve as a positive change agent against modern media portrayal of the continent as home to war, disease, hunger, and corruption.”
Muzawazi said during the expedition, they would be holding lectures, workshops, discussions and exhibitions interacting directly with different people as part of a cultural diplomacy in social development.
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This is not the first time for Muzavazi to be involved in such a travelling adventure.
In 2010 he successfully claimed the title of the first African to cross the African continent north-to-south by land on a research expedition that clocked 24 000km in 17 African countries in six months.
In 2009, he was nominated Best Foreign Student in Poland by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education out of 17 000 foreign students at Polish universities for cultural diplomacy and helping people in Europe to understand Africa.
Muzawazi is the country’s only entry in the Guinness Book of World Records to date for his longest lecture of 21 hours.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Chief Executive Karikoga Kaseke has been named the patron of the African Records World Expedition.
Kaseke has urged local people to assist with the expedition that he said would help put the country on the world map and assist in marketing the country’s tourism.
