As more and more folks participate in African tourism, wouldn’t it be better that they book experiences from small, local companies and tour guides than flocking to top tourist attractions?

This is the thinking of 25-year-old Tapiwa Ndlovu, an alum of Drexel University who in the year and a half since graduating has built a team of technologists, marketers and salespeople to achieve the goal of promoting local tourism through his travel startup, Kumba Africa.

The Zimbabwe native launched the company in 2018 with the goal of getting tourists beyond those only visiting local landmarks in countries across his home continent. He met cofounder Ayyoob Abrahams in South Africa while working on another venture, and the pair launched the tourism business with Ndlovu as CEO and Abrahams as CTO.

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