AfricaClockwise

Over the next 3 years, Sampson will be travelling in a giant 10 ton truck called the Green Bandwagon, it will also be the first trek to use cooking oil to circumnavigate the African continent.

Sampson is also on a mission to discover if Africa can show the world how to combat climate change. With our ecological clock ticking, this modern day Livingstone is setting out to explore more than 30 countries across the continent: one year up the west coast and one down the east including the new North African democracies. 

It is also a quest to discover whether it is possible to persuade his kids they can live happily without a TV or even water on tap and investigate whether a future without fossil-fuelled luxuries may not be such a bad thing.