Exploring Africa: From Back Roads to Board Rooms

Pamela Watson graduated from UWA with a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in 1980. She was a Commonwealth Scholar and completed an MBA at the University of Toronto. Pamela is a strategy and change management professional who has worked with some of the world's largest international consultancy firms. She later founded her own consulting practices in Ghana and Nigeria, and social enterprise in Nigeria.  She is also an author who has written about her solo cycling journey through 17 African countries in the nineties (which gave us her first book Esprit de Battuta: Alone Across Africa on a Bicycle), and her thrilling entrepreneurial and diplomatic adventures in Nigeria in the 2000s (the subject of her new book Gibbous Moon Over Lagos: Pursuing a Dream on Africa's Wild Side) and her ongoing work in Africa, usually from her London home. Pamela's books are published by Hardie Grant Books and can be ordered online via these links: Gibbous Moon Over Lagos|Esprit de Battuta. They are also available through online stores or your favourite bookshop, including independents. Follow Pamela on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter.  During Covid19, she will be starting some live chats on LinkedIn and Facebook with people who know Africa, so check out the events page on her website: pamelawatson.com or Facebook page. Pamela also invites fellow UWA graduates to reach out to her at: [email protected]