Heather Ellis – Author.
"Ubuntu and Beyond"
Heather Ellis is the author of Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa, a memoir about a life-changing adventure into the soul of Africa where she finds Ubuntu— a traditional Bantu word that means ‘I am because we are’. It is the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.Ubuntu details Heather's epic journey over 15 months and 19 countries riding 42,000 kilometres on a Yamaha TT600 off-road motorcycle from South to North Africa during 1993 to 1994. While her memoir is a journey filled with 'survival-against-the-odds' adventures, it also unfolds as a deeply spiritual journey of personal growth that resonates with all who read Ubuntu.
Heather is an Australian author, journalist, public speaker and motorcycle road safety advocate. She also rode her Yamaha TT600 from London, where she worked as a motorcycle courier, to Vietnam via Central Asia on the 'Silk Road' from 1993 to 1997. Heather has worked as a radiation safety technician, a journalist for News Ltd and in communications for the NGO, Plan International. She lives in the Yarra Valley near Melbourne with her three children, and still rides motorcycles.
Heather is also a professional public speaker on sexual health and HIV with the Living Positive Victoria Speakers’ Bureau.
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