Contribute Blog

Contribute Africa Travel Articles

Are you a local from anywhere in Africa and would like to share travel tips about your country?
Have you traveled to Africa and learned some tricks that you would like to share with our fellow travelers?

Share them on our platform!

Though we absolutely love traveling to Africa, we aren’t always there as much as we want to so the only way we can keep While in Africa a good resource is to keep it updated through your contributions.

What do you get by contributing articles to our platform?

  • Gain exposure. We will provide a proper bio profile linked to your own website or social media pages
  • We will allow up to 2 relevant backlinks within your article. The links should be used to promote your own blogs and not to be used for ads, affiliate links, etc…
  • Be able to help other travelers. Without the traveling community, it would be nearly impossible to travel anymore, won’t you agree 🙂

Guidelines:

  • Our platform is strictly about Travels to Africa
  • We only accept articles from your own experience, not of someone you know, or from research
  • Blog published on our platform cannot be published elsewhere (duplicate content is a bummer)
  • We need quality photos to go with your write-up
  • We don’t care so much about grammar but format and writing has to be acceptable
  • Each article has to be minimum of 800 words
  • We cannot guarantee the publishing of your article as we need to gauge relevance first. When in doubt, feel free to send us your working title and outline prior to writing
  • Go through our website to see if what you plan to submit would be relevant. We give high preference to crossing border articles but we welcome ideas and recommendations

Format:

  • Submit your article in Google Doc Link or WordPress file
  • Submit photos separately, maximum 5 per article
  • Include your bio-profile in the file with your headshot, description of yourself (max. 30 words), and social media links (up to 3)

How to submit:

Send your article to erika[at]whileinafrica[dot]com
Subject: Contributor: [Your working title]

I will respond as soon as I can 🙂

Thank you and I look forward to hear from you!