Kumakonda 2026 program: one more year on the road in Africa

Kumakonda 2026 program: one more year on the road in Africa

Every year we return to Africa. Not because it is an inexhaustible destination -which it is-, but because it is a living, changing, unpredictable territory. The routes we traveled a decade ago are different today. The people, the markets, the celebrations, even the roads, force us to rethink the journey each time. The Kumakonda 2026 program is not a catalog. It is a roadmap. A calendar of expeditions designed from the field, designed for those who understand travel as an experience and not as consumption.

Traveling here is not “sightseeing”.

Our trips do not seek to isolate the traveler from reality, quite the contrary.
We travel as a team, we participate in the daily logistics, we sleep where possible – sometimes in small local hotels, sometimes in camps – and we accept that the route does not always respond to exact schedules.

This is not an inconvenience: it is the necessary condition for the trip to really happen.

West Africa, the Sahel, the jungles of the Gulf of Guinea, the Horn of Africa or the deserts of Chad do not function as classic tourist destinations. They require time, adaptation and an open mind. That’s why we talk about expeditions.

A year following the rhythms of the continent

The Kumakonda 2026 programming is organized, as always, around the moments when places are most alive.

• Spring brings us to Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea, when the great ceremonial gatherings begin and cultural activity marks the pulse of the Hausa and Yoruba cities.
• The beginning of summer opens the way to equatorial Africa: jungles, ancestral traditions and long routes where travel is also coexistence.
• The central months take us to southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, combining open landscapes with societies unaccustomed to visitors.
• Autumn returns to the Sahel, when great nomadic celebrations and tribal gatherings give meaning to crossing these regions. We will also return to southern Africa and the deep desert of Libya.
• The end of the year takes us into the deserts of Chad and the Central African Republic, demanding expeditions where the landscape and isolation are part of the experience. In addition, this year we travel to the Horn of Africa, a region we have been looking forward to for a long time: Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Eritrea await us.

It’s not about “seeing more,” it’s about being in the right place at the right time.

Familiar routes, new contexts

Some expeditions return because they still make sense.
Others appear because conditions – social, cultural or logistical – make access possible again. In all cases, itineraries are constantly revised on the ground.

Traveling here implies assuming that nothing is completely fixed: African times, real distances, the weather or local current events require flexibility. This same flexibility is what allows encounters and situations that could never be programmed from an office.

Kumakonda 2026 programming: expedition schedule

For the Kumakonda 2026 program, we have designed shorter and more intense itineraries with long journeys of several weeks; cultural celebrations with geographical expeditions; routes of very close human contact with others dominated by landscape and distance.

Here is the complete list. You can browse the web to see more information about each one, or write to us at info@kumakonda.com asking for the information of the one you are most interested in, as long as it is not “complete”.

1. Nigeria Yoruba Land: From 12 to 17 March 2026 / 6 days / € 1.650 / FINISHED
2. Nigeria Durbar Festival March: From March 18 to 24, 2026 / 7 days / € 1.950 / FINISHED
3. Deep Roots: From 31 March to 03 May 2026 / 34 days / € 5.500 / SOLD OUT
4. Gabon: 26 June to 13 July 2026 / 18 days / €4,650.00 / SOLD OUT
5. Angola Tribal: From 05 to 18 July 2026 / 14 days / € 4,150 / OPEN
6. Zambia: From August 21 to September 01, 2026 / 12 days / € 3,100 / OPEN
7. Zambia and Malawi: From August 21 to September 08, 2026 / 19 days / € 4,000 / OPEN
8. Chad tribes: FRom September 11 to 22, 2026 / 12 days / € 3,350 / OPEN
9. Niger Gerewol: From September 23 to October 03, 2026 / 12 days / € 4,150 / OPEN
10. Gerewol Festival in Chad: From October 06 to 11, 2026 / 6 days / € 1,800 / OPEN
11. Gerewol + Ennedi in Chad: From October 13 to 28, 2026 / 16 days / € 3,600/ OPEN
12. Djibouti, Somaliland and Somalia: From October 19 to November 28, 2026 / 10 days / € 3,600 / OPEN
13. Eritrea: From October 31 to November 07, 2026 / 8 days / € 1,900 / OPEN
14. Angola Baia dos Tigres: From 07 to 18 November 2026 / 12 days / € 3,900 / OPEN
15. Libya: November 14 to 24, 2026 / 11 days / OPEN
16. Chad Tibesti: From November 21 to December 11, 2026 / 21 days / € 4,750 / OPEN
17. Central African Rep. and Rep. of the Congo : From 06 to 19 December 2026 / 14 days / € 6.900 / OPEN

We continue to travel

After many years of organizing expeditions, the motivation remains the same: to come back, look carefully, adjust the routes and share them with small groups who want to experience them directly.

The Kumakonda 2026 program is an invitation to be part of this process.

Whoever approaches us will find demanding, sometimes uncomfortable, often unpredictable, but also profoundly human journeys. That’s exactly why we continue to make them.

If you are interested in any of the itineraries, please contact us at info@kumakonda.com and we will confirm if there are still places available.