Chica Travel with Lelo

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81. Prof Adrian Saville on What An Economist Sees When He Travels

August 31, 2026

I asked an economist to lend me his eyes. Prof Adrian Saville has been to almost 100 countries. He also studies how countries work, which means he walks through the same airports and streets we do and sees something completely different. We talk about what he notices first when he lands, whether travel is money well spent, what our spending actually does in the places we visit, and why it is still so hard for Africans to move around Africa. Prof Adrian Saville is Professor of Economics, Fina...

80. Hulisani Ravele on Travel As Self Love

August 11, 2026

What happens when you strip away the expectations of work, family, and public life? According to Hulisani Ravele, you find your "fullness." In this intimate conversation, Hulisani and I explore the transformative power of the passport. Hulisani shares her evolution into a meticulous "Project Manager" of her own joy and we delve into the spiritual weight of Morocco, the "un-Hulisani" chaos of Amsterdam, and the visceral thrill of the F1 paddock. This episode is a call to action for every profe...

79. Nikiwe Bikitsha on Curiosity, Travelling Africa & the Places We Overlook

July 14, 2026

Nikiwe Bikitsha is one of the reasons this podcast exists. Years before I started Chica Travel, I heard her travel across the continent on 702's Africa Connected and thought, what if I did this? In this episode she takes me from a childhood in Mthatha glued to the news, to countries across the continent, to three weeks in Pakistan, to Japan, and to Oxford finding her when she was not looking. We talk about curiosity as a way of moving through the world, seeing a city by running through it, th...