THE CALL OF EAST AFRICA
ABOUT ME
THE FOUNDER: EDA ALP
A passionate storyteller, smitten in love for the majestic land of East Africa, I founded The Call of East Africa to help expats, locals and tourists live this paradise as beautifully as I have lived it.
MY PHILOSOPHY
Passion, emotion, pragmatism and quality
What makes The Call of East Africa unique?
My goal when writing articles for EEA is not only to give great travel advice in this under-documented region, but also make you feel the way I felt.
My articles not only focus on the practical side of things, but they are detailed renditions of the atmosphere, the energy, the emotion of the most beautiful locations in East Africa.
In my articles, I want to make you feel the magic, the enchantment, the mysticism of this majestic continent.
My pragmatic recommendations paired with my detailed, passionate descriptions, add a touch of magic to your travels.
Medical student.
Musician.
Travel writer.
Full-time adventurer.
How I miss Africa. I spent beautiful years in this magical continent, fully immersed in its beauty, nature, people, culture, music, food, customs and art.
But, alas, real life gets in the way sometimes: I have to become an adult, leave my young lustful years in Africa, leave my home to grow wings of my own.
I've always excelled at sciences, and decided to make my life a life of endless learning, combining hard sciences with the glorious art of healing.
While fascinated by the medical field and passionate about what I've dedicated my life to, I find time to allow myself to yearn for my surreal, movie-like years packed with adventure: safaris; rafting in wild African rivers; exploring Congolese jungles; flying above the untamed, deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean in tiny propeller airplanes; getting a flat tire in the middle of the Ugandan savannah at 2 in the morning, under the African moonlight and surrounded by silent predators of the night; stargazing, observing our galaxy for hours on end, lying on white-sand beaches in deserted tropical islands off the coast of Tanzania; silently observing majestic elephants while they curiously observe us, with the background of Mount Kili; hiking in the dramatic cliffs of the Ethiopian Highlands, amongst medieval churches carved into the mountains.
I yearn and I yearn, my heart breaks over and over, and I write it all down. I write to reminisce, I write to advise, I write to help others live what I have lived. Africa was the greatest adventure of my life, and I need to put it out there, I need to put in on paper, I need to have some tangible evidence of it. Because, if not, I fear it'll be like it was all a dream: that it is merely a memory of a time that has once existed and has melted into history, amongst all that has happened on Earth and ever will happen.
I write to make sure this part of my life forever exists. I write to encapsulate these few years of pure happiness and adventure. Maybe, if I write it down, that part of my life will play over and over, like in a loop, in my poems and in my descriptions and in my hotel reccomendations.
Maybe, if it's all written down, that part of my life will never stop existing. The wonderment of the Eda who saw Kilimanjaro for the first time will exist eternally and happen over and over again in my poem A Little Kenyan Propeller Airplane. The thrill of the Eda sipping a cocktail in a loungey afrobeats bar, admiring the Addis Ababan skyline with her Ethiopian friends will forever exist in my article The best places of Addis Ababa: Happy Hour edition. The exhilaration of the Eda scoring a birdie on a par-4 in a luxurious golf course on the shores of the world's largest tropical lake, Lake Victoria, will forever be felt in The top 3 best Golf Courses in Kampala.
Everyday, I write to feel and to make you feel. Everything I do is for Africa. Each one of my actions brings me closer to a life in East Africa.
Welcome to the Call of East Africa.
Note for the expats:
My mission here in The Call of East Africa is to transmit my love for this magical place on Earth by making you live it to its fullest.
Moving to Africa is challenging: it's easy to feel lost and intimidated. It is a completely different world, where you will be faced with unfamiliarity and bewilderment.
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My goal is to make the website, create the community I wish I had when I moved here. A comforting, safe space showing you that life in East Africa can be familiar, comfortable, joyful and blissful, no matter how disoriented, unsettled you may feel at first.
But, most of all, what I want is to help you create beautiful memories, live unforgettable stories you will recount to wide-eyed friends and family in years to come.
