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Tété’s Call
In icy Greenland, inspired by a Togolese explorer, journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa seeks cross-cultural connection.
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About the Pathfinder
Visual storyteller Noo Saro-Wiwa is an award-winning author, journalist, and a prospective expeditioner for the Pathfinder Prize finalist team, “In Tété’s Footsteps: A Cultural Expedition in Greenland.”
She attended King’s College London and Columbia University in New York. She is a features writer for Condé Nast Traveler magazine, and has contributed book reviews, travel, opinion and analysis articles for The Guardian newspaper, The Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement, City AM, Chatham House and The New York Times, among others.
Her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, was published to critical acclaim in 2012. Her second book, Black Ghost, explores the African community in China and will be published by Canongate in 2023.
In 2018, Condé Nast Traveler named her one of “The World’s 30 Most Influential Female Travelers.”
“In Tété’s Footseps” Expedition Cover Image: A Greenlandic Inuit musher being pulled on a dog sled.