Vagabond Tourism and a Non-Colonial European Gaze:

Kazimierz Nowak’s Bicycle Journey across Africa, 1931-1936

From November 1931 to November 1936, the Polish citizen Kazimierz Nowak traversed the African continent, from Libya to Cape Town to Algiers, primarily by bicycle and without major sponsors or state support. This talk argues that his critical gaze on colonialism and capitalism arose due to his method of travel as a poor, vagabond tourist and because of his position as a European from a country without colonies in Africa.

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