Félix and Martin: 
the world turns around cycling 

Imagine… living your dream as a kid. Félix Dubois and Martin Blanchard, two students – and friends – at Kedge Business School, on the Bordeaux campus, decided to live a six months sports and cultural adventure. Their goal? To realize a documentary on human beings and animal cohabitation in southern Africa. They needed a few months of preparations, got partnerships, and created the association “Wanyama”, which allow them to have 20 000 euros. The two friends and their bikes “Aventon Kijote” arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on January 15th, 2020. Martin never went to Africa before, Félix knows Africa since his childhood. Their trip? Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique – where they stopped to surf for a month – and South Africa. A brand new experience for both of them.

There is a very intimate link between cycling, nature, and discovery of new places: “ When you cycle, you smell scents, you hear noises, everything is simple and accessible, it is easy to connect with people and talk to them” says the two friends. When cycling, Félix and Martin have met Masaïs people, shepherds, rangers who work on national parks reservations, and various tribes … The documentary makers know how to be discreet behind the camera to let people express themselves freely, get their point of view into the light.