Our Team
Yaw Asare
(co-Founder, Program Design & Development, Trip Facilitator)
Yaw’s passion to learn through travel has seen him sojourn in a few countries in Afrika and North America. He has worked in the international travel scene for 3years and has led and trained troops of backpackers in West AfriKa before venturing to start AK with a dope crew.
When he finds himself with some uncommitted time, he is usually lost in the melodies of music that permeates, flipping through the pages of a book, writing, dreaming or in the company of close friends taking deep sips from calabashes of palm wine or the millet brewed beer, pito while listening or telling stories especially of his travel adventures: like the time he found himself in the chilly dark sahel lands of Mali or the time he walked into the home of the writer Ayi Kwei Armah in Poppenguine, Senegal…(ahem, we will leave him to tell his stories).
He holds an M. Phil Afrikan Studies from the Institute of Afrikan Studies, Legon where he used to side hustle as a Graduate Assistant.
Latoya Ogunbona
(co-Founder, Finance)
Latoya, an avid traveler and blackpacker, was one of Yaw's first blackpackers and a muse for Abibikwantuo. Latoya’s journeys to eleven countries and counting has her seeking to be with her people.
When Latoya is not blackpacking, she is working as a school administrator in Massachusetts. Latoya completed her Master's in Social Work and as the valedictorian of her group and hopes to work in the realm of policy to advocate for marginalized populations.
Latoya also enjoys reading, practicing yoga, dancing, and engaging in social and political discourse.
Jawabu
