Pelu Awofeso is a winner of the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Awards in the Tourism reporting category. He started out as a freelance columnist for the state-owned Standard newspaper in Jos (Plateau State), after which he moved to Africa Today as Arts & Travel Correspondent, Network Africa (as Editor) and National Daily (as Travel Editor).

In 2009 he launched a travel project tagged “The Beautiful Underbelly Tour”, during which travelled solo across Nigeria’s six geographical regions. His stories and photographs from that 10-month journey are collected in his third travel book Tour of Duty.

And in a career spanning nearly 15 years, he has travelled widely around Nigeria—32 states at the last count—documenting several indigenous festivals and carnivals; his other travel interests include museums, monuments, nature, crafts and the daily pursuits of everyday Nigerians.