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Expert Panel

We have gathered together an expert panel of the world's most renowned travel writers specializing in Africa. These award-winning writers and safari specialists are responsible for creating and informing our content. This includes writing more than a thousand firsthand reviews of national parks and reserves. They also contribute to our detailed park and country travel guides. Let our experts guide you to finding your perfect African adventure.

The Panel Members

Alan Murphy
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Alan Murphy
Australia AU
40 Reviews

Alan is a travel writer and author of over 20 Lonely Planet guidebooks, including the guides to Southern Africa and Zambia & Malawi.

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Anthony Ham
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Anthony Ham
Australia AU
67 Reviews

Anthony is a photographer and writer for travel magazines and Lonely Planet, including the guides to Kenya and Botswana & Namibia.

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Ariadne van Zandbergen
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Ariadne van Zandbergen
South Africa ZA
167 Reviews

Ariadne is a renowned African wildlife photographer whose work is featured in many well-known guidebooks and magazines.

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Brian Jackman
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Brian Jackman
United Kingdom UK
47 Reviews

Brian is an award winning travel writer, author of safari books and regular contributor to magazines such as BBC Wildlife and Travel Africa.

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Christopher Clark
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Christopher Clark
United Kingdom UK
45 Reviews

Christopher is a British travel writer and has contributed to various Fodor's guidebooks and a range of travel magazines.

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Dale R Morris
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Dale R Morris
South Africa ZA
47 Reviews

Dale is a multi-award-winning writer and photographer with more than 500 published magazine articles featured in magazines such as National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa, and CNN Travel.

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Emma Gregg
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Emma Gregg
United Kingdom UK
79 Reviews

Emma is an award-winning travel writer for Rough Guides, National Geographic Traveller, Travel Africa magazine and The Independent.

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Gemma Pitcher
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Gemma Pitcher
Australia AU
20 Reviews

Gemma authored several Lonely Planet guidebooks, including the guides to Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

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Harriet Nimmo
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Harriet Nimmo
South Africa ZA
51 Reviews

Harriet is a zoologist with more than 20 years’ experience. She has the privilege of working with the world’s top wildlife photographers and photo-guides.

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Heather Richardson
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Heather Richardson
South Africa ZA
13 Reviews

Heather is a British travel / conservation journalist, and has written for publications and broadcasters such as the BBC, Departures, the Telegraph and the Sunday Times.

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James Bainbridge
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James Bainbridge
United Kingdom UK
25 Reviews

James is a travel writer and author of many Lonely Planet guides, including senior author of the guide to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.

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Kim Wildman
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Kim Wildman
Australia AU
41 Reviews

Kim is a travel writer who authored and updated over 15 guidebooks, including Lonely Planet's South Africa and Bradt's Tanzania guides.

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Lizzie Williams
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Lizzie Williams
South Africa ZA
95 Reviews

Lizzie is a reputed guidebook writer and author of the Footprint guides to South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

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Lucy Corne
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Lucy Corne
United Kingdom UK
27 Reviews

Lucy is travel writer for a range of publications, including Lonely Planet's guides to Africa, Southern Africa and South Africa.

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Mark Eveleigh
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Mark Eveleigh
United Kingdom UK
46 Reviews

Mark is a travel writer who grew up in Africa and has written over 700 titles for Condé Nast Traveller, Travel Africa, BBC Wildlife and others.

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Mary Fitzpatrick
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Mary Fitzpatrick
United States US
24 Reviews

Mary is an acclaimed travel writer and author of many Lonely Planet guidebooks, including South Africa, Tanzania, East Africa and Africa.

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Mike Unwin
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Mike Unwin
United Kingdom UK
48 Reviews

Mike is an award-winning wildlife writer, former editor of Travel Zambia magazine and author of the Bradt Guide to Southern African Wildlife.

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Nana Luckham
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Nana Luckham
United Kingdom UK
17 Reviews

Nana is a travel writer and author of multiple guidebooks, including the Lonely Planet guides to Africa, Zambia & Malawi and South Africa.

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Paul Murray
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Paul Murray
United Kingdom UK
13 Reviews

Paul is a travel writer, author of the Bradt guidebook to Zimbabwe and is closely involved in promoting tourism to Zimbabwe.

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Philip Briggs
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Philip Briggs
South Africa ZA
160 Reviews

Philip is an acclaimed travel writer and author of many guidebooks, including the Bradt guides to Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa.

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Stephen Cunliffe
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Stephen Cunliffe
South Africa ZA
97 Reviews

Stephen is a travel writer and avid conservationist whose work appears in prestigious magazines such as Africa Geographic and Travel Africa.

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Stuart Butler
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Stuart Butler
United Kingdom UK
49 Reviews

Stuart is a travel writer and author of numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks, including 'Kenya', 'Rwanda' and 'Tanzania'.

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Sue Watt
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Sue Watt
United Kingdom UK
46 Reviews

Sue is an award-winning writer who specializes in African travel and conservation. She writes for national newspapers, magazines, Rough Guides and Lonely Planet.

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Tim Bewer
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Tim Bewer
United States US
21 Reviews

Tim is a travel writer who has covered 10 African countries for Lonely Planet's Africa, East Africa and West Africa guidebooks.

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