Hector does Africa!

'Hector Africa – A go Z’ will see Ireland’s most famous traveller, Hector Ó hEochagáin take you on the first three stops on an African road trip of a lifetime from Addis to Zimbabwe.

From safaris to Olympic greats, from tribes to wildlife rangers, from rastas to khat farms, from slums to camel markets, Hector takes you on the most dangerous, most volatile journey of his life as he begins this amazing road trip through the continent of Africa.

Beginning in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, he’ll zip through Sudan and drop you off in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a road trip you’ll never forget the ‘A go Z’ of Africa with Hector at the helm!

Episode one airs on Thursday next, October 8, at 9.30 on TG4 and will see him meet up with one of the greatest distance runners of all time Haile Gebrselassie.

He will also check out the coffee trade and fashion, before journeying south taking in the Rastafarian Community in Shashamane, where he tries the local khat and then takes on the painstaking journey further south to the Omo Valley to be part of the bull jumping ritual with the Hamar Tribe.

Episode two and three air on October 15 and 22 respectively, and see the Navan man travel to Sudan's Capital, Khartoum where the Blue and the White River Nile meet.

Hector then lands in Nairobi, Kenya and sees a city that has changed so much since his last time here 16 years ago.

After a chat with John-Allan Namu, an investigative journalist, Hector links up with Irish missionary Sr Miriam Duggan in the slums of Nairobi before heading to the mountainous town of Iten which is home to the ‘Godfather of Kenyan running’ who just happens to be an Irishman.

From conservationists to wildlife rangers it is an incredible trip as he finally ends up in the Land of the Samburu.