First Black Woman To Visit Every Country In The World To Release Memoir Inspiring Travel And Intentional Living
Jessica Nabongo’s life is full of bucket list-worthy moments. The writer and entrepreneur lives by the principles that the world is one big neighborhood, people are inherently good, and everyone has the power to create the life they want. So it’s no surprise that the 38-year-old became the first Black woman to travel to all 195 countries in the world. After chronicling her adventures in her popular travel and lifestyle blog, ‘The Catch Me if You Can,’ Nabongo is preparing to share those experiences in a new way. Her debut memoir of the same title, The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World, is set to be released June 16.
The travelogue, published by National Geographic, highlights 100 of her favorite destinations. Whether she’s recounting whizzing through the dirt roads of Uganda on the back of a boda boda or dog sledding in Norway, her experiences offer an alternate perspective of global travel and adventure, because they’re coming from the lens of a Black woman.
“It was my personal journey to visit every country in the world. But close to the finish line, it became so much bigger than me,” Nabongo tells ESSENCE.
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