Writing Samples
Kaylan Reid Shipanga provides content on everything from timely opinion pieces to quick turnaround travel guides. Browse through a few samples of her work from around the web below. Or, click here to view my complete writing portfolio.
Traveling to africa for the first time as an african american
. . . I just wanted to get off of that plane and be enveloped in the South African outdoors. To smell it. To feel it. To study the faces of these familiar but long lost cousins.
tHE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO STUDY ABROAD AFRICA
Afrobeat music. Powerful lectures. And afternoons visiting epic African heritage sites. Are you a student feeling pulled to life on the African continent? Follow that voice because when Africa calls you don’t ignore her!
CONFRONTING WHITE PRIVILEGE AS A BLACK EXPAT IN NAMIBIA
When I first moved to Namibia I was a 26-year-old in escape mode.
“I can remember my dad saying, ‘We’re moving back to Africa.’
For Fabiola Noinxas, quitting her full-time job to care for her paralysed mother in Kalkfeld was a simple choice.
I often hear African Americans talk of moving “back to Africa”. I listen to their romantic expectations. But I know continental life is no utopia.
Plotting your escape from the good ole US of A? Is a move to the African continent on your horizons? Before you jet out, ask yourself these questions first.