Month: June 2016

After a difficult 40 km paddle with no water flow to help them, Oscar and Alfy settled down for the evening at their camp in a fishing village next to Capanda Dam with some local fish for dinner. Suddenly, at 12.30 a.m. they were woken abruptly with AK47 assault rifles shoved into their tent before […]

Oscar Scafidi and Alfy Weston’s attempt to kayak 1,100 km from source to mouth of the Kwanza river in Angola has hit a snag as their 1960s German-made Klepper Kayak struck a dam in rapids near Kuito Bridge and sunk. After being stranded on an island in the river for several hours local fisherman came […]

I touched down in Luanda on the evening of Tuesday 31 May 2016. This is my first time back in Angola since I left Luanda International School in July 2014. The first thing that struck me was how visible the impact of the current financial crisis is. My flight was with Brussels Airlines, and was […]