Richard Trillo - Rough Guides

Richard Trillo first visited Africa on a hitchhiking trip to Timbuktu in 1977, with a friend and $100. Since then, he has travelled widely throughout the continent and gained a master’s degree in East African ethnography, African linguistics and Swahili from the School of Oriental and African studies, London University. He joined the fledgling travel publisher Rough Guides as an author in 1984 and became Director of Communications in 1990. He now works as a travel journalist, editor and PR consultant and regularly gets back on the road to update his Rough Guides to Kenya, West Africa and First-Time Africa. He lives in the remote suburbs of southwest London with his wife and their three children.