James C. Wilson (October 8, 1900 – January 31, 1995)^[1][2] was a long-distance motorcyclist and author of the autobiography Three-Wheeling Through Africa.^[3] His five-month 1927 journey from Nigeria to Eritrea on a Triumph sidecar with Francis Flood may have been the first motorized crossing of Africa by motorcycle.^[4]

After a United States tour in the late 1930s promoting his travels and book, Wilson resided in Polk, Nebraska where he was a corn farmer.^[1]

Photographs he published in National Geographic were used in a 21st century MIT anthropology course.^[5]

• Wilson, James Calmar (1936). Three-wheeling Through Africa (first ed.). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. ASIN B000856L32.

• Percy Hutchison (October 11, 1936), "In Africa; Three-Wheeling Through Africa", The New York Times
• ""Photography and Truth" currculum" (PDF), 21A.348 / CMS.835 Photography and Truth OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 2008
• History of Overlanding – Up to the end of 1920s, Overland Magazine, December 17, 2017, the first trans-African motorcycle journey we've heard of
• Radel, Cliff (January 17, 2001), "Journal of a journey – African trip inspires effort", Cincinnati Enquirer, p. B.1

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