Recent years’ political turmoils made the Sahara region mostly off limits for any Western person aiming to travel from Maghreb to the heart of Africa on a land route. The only viable itinerary today starts from Morocco and pass through Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea Bissau.
Its a long journey mostly on Sahara sand, finding its end in the Atlantic Ocean. Along this path you can read a lot between the lines of colonialism history and discover the relations between the Muslim-Arabic world and the deepest, black Africa, where ancient religious practices survive the ones brought by strangers.