Connolly, Sean: Mauritania

Sean Connolly (Instagram @shanboqol) first travelled to Africa as a student in 2008 and has been returning to the continent regularly to research, teach or simply soak up the ambiance in Africa's countless little-visited corners ever since. He was poring over maps before he could read them, and has been working with Bradt Guides since 2011. After authoring two editions of Bradt's Senegal, he was grateful for the opportunity to get to know its mysterious northern neighbour, Mauritania, as well. Sean has also updated or contributed to the Bradt guidebooks to Somaliland, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana, Uruguay, Sierra Leone, São Tomé & Príncipe, two editions of Rwanda, and Gabon. When he's not updating guides, leading tours or discussing the many merits of camel meat (a delicacy in Mauritania!), you'll find him seeking out a country's funkiest records or dodging raindrops in Copenhagen.