"Africa is the best craftsman on earth to sharpen the senses of the traveler. An exciting experience that changes not only the cells of the body but also the soul. Africa teaches the traveler to feel the rebirth of each cell in the most thrilling way: this is its magic. It is the one that in seconds knows how to unite the senses with the heart. It has this art, which it passes on to the traveler in the form of an electric shock. Africa is a sacred wanderer. However, more than any other place in the world, you feel that it has its own peculiar soul, mysteriously kind and expressive."
Words of the author of this edition, Eleni Ginou, who today teaches intercultural education and French language at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Hellenic Open University.
Eleni Ginou is, through travel, a lifelong student at the university called "Africa" and cannot be compared to any of the cosmopolitan universities, such as Harvard, Oxford, or the Sorbonne. Africa requires education in order to understand it, to accept it and to be accepted by it, that is, to place you above its poverty and diseases. After thirty years of traveling in Europe, Asia, America, and Africa, that is, in all the lengths and breadths of the earth, the author firmly believes that travel in Europe is primary education, travel in America is secondary, while travel in Asia is tertiary education. When the traveler comes armed with the above equipment, they will be educated in Africa at a postdoctoral level on the simple but highest values of life and will not feel the need to return to Asia or America.
These words are written by a "captive" not of war but of Africa, which does not captivate you with its magic but liberates the soul with its magic and gives lessons of the meaning of life on earth in a stunning way, through transfusion. The power that the Sahara has to reveal your personal eternity is not possessed by any other part of the earth. Africa is not just a continent but the beginning and the end of the human and animal universe. The first human appeared here; here are the last remnants of nature. And only these elements create powerful vibrations in the traveler. Africa is not primitive but primal, and the first thing we have to do is to respect it."