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Today, Wangechi Gitahi Travels turns eight. ✨ Eight years of journeys. Eight years of stories. Eight years of building something this continent deserves — and that much of the world has never been properly shown. But this story began long before the business. Seventeen years ago, I started travelling across Africa — alone, overland, by public means, carrying a notebook and far more questions than answers. And very quickly, I discovered something I could Not unsee. The Africa being sold to the world and the Africa that actually existed were two entirely different places. The brochure version was beautiful, sanitized, and largely dishonest. The real Africa — its people, its complexity, its brilliance, its resilience, its cultures, its contradictions — was being edited out of its own story. That gap is where Wangechi Gitahi Travels was born. And filling it — honestly, specifically, intentionally, and without apology — is the…