He was a Nigerian called Moshood Adisi Olabisi Ajala.
He was a renowned globe-trotter, socialite and
free lance journalist, who was described in many Nigerian songs as
Africa's greatest traveler. He was born in Ghana, then moved to Nigeria
to school and went to the US at age 18 where he started his travels in
the 50s. He supposedly went to 87 countries in six years and mostly on
his bicycle. Hear Ajala in his own words after the cut...
Excerpt from his book
From America I went to Canada (where I spent a couple of years) and
later on to Britain. In 1957 I began my one-man Odyssey around the
world. It is still going on as I write this in Sydney, Australia. In
nearly all the eighty-seven countries I have visited during the course
of my six-year jaunt around the world (ranging from North America to
Eastern and Western Europe, through Africa and Asia and as far east as
Korea, Indonesia and Australia), I have observed many different
political regimes both in democratic and communist states. I have met
with brutality and racial intolerance. I have felt the bitter evil of
man's inhumanity to man, and have marbled at the goodness of the
humane-hearted"
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