Meet Aboubacar Douno , a passionate world traveller from Guinea. He has so far travelled to 75 countries and is fluent in five languages. He is also an envoy coordinator at NomadMania and builds ventures with 54 Startups, which seeks to build innovative startups for Africa and the world. You can also watch this interview in video form on our NomadMania Youtube channel.
First off, tell us about you, a bit of your background and how you started travelling. What was the spark for you? Currently, I run a startup studio called 54 Startups, and we build innovative startups in Africa.
And when it comes to travelling, I actually started travelling mostly because of work. I used to work in a nonprofit back in the day, and we used to do a lot of work trips in a lot of African countries, as well as going to the US and coming to Europe for training and meetings.
I had amazing travel benefits. We had this package from my job where we could go anywhere around the world. There was a certain amount that we could use just for travelling. So I spent my time looking for places to go to so I could use up the funds.
I think my first countries that I went to were all either work-related or thanks to the job that I used to have back in the day. I realised that by the time I got to country number 30 that I really enjoy travel.
