Back to walk down the street with guys who follow your trail asking you to give them something to justify their steps (are often hungry types, others with faces and, almost always, with serious alcohol problems); up to a new, empty bus because whites continue to use their cars and their minibus blacks ...

In a corner of the world, in tropical forests that engulf borders, the last gorillas survive land. Go on your quest is a huge experience, unforgettable. We in Uganda, in Bwindi National Park, tracing the footsteps of these great primates to which, Ranger warns the Nkuringo, it is better not to make eye contact so they do not feel challenged. Here we go.

An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. And "One million rocks" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.

Tracing the history of Africa is not always an easy task. But, the continete has obvious symbolic places in which to understand a little more of his turbulent past. Here are seven that I spent.