Forty cyclists from across East Africa set out from Arusha on a fifty-five-day, six-thousand-kilometre journey through five nations — not merely as athletes, but as emissaries of a regional idea still searching for its human face. The Great Africa Cycling Safari of 2026 rests on a quiet conviction: that unity, to be real, must be felt in the body and witnessed in the street, not only ratified in treaty halls. Where governments have drawn borders and diplomats have signed frameworks, these riders are tracing a different kind of line — one made of shared road, planted trees, and the faces of sch