The 12 ultramarathons that Deo Kato has completed in recent years look modest compared with his current challenge: running from Cape Town to London. The aim of his epic journey is no less ambitious: Kato wants to tell the story of human migration, highlighting parallels between the millions of people forced to leave their homes today in search of a better life and the earliest movement of humans from Africa.
“The Khoisan people in South Africa, for example, are moving based on climate. They migrate to find a better environment that they can live in. So we’re moving for the same reasons that [anthropologists believe] early humans used to move for,” says Kato.
