I just watched a
YouTube video by a gentleman complaining about the paperwork required to travel within Africa. He made it very simple that his Schengen VISA was quickly processed yet you need to apply for individual VISAs for every African country you go to as an African. So, I went back to my
dual African currencies concept & thought maybe if these single currency regions I mentioned in the blog would be accompanied with VISA-free travel similar to the travel VISA-free travel many European countries have amongst themselves. This could be to decrease the bureaucracy & perhaps fastrack the transfer of skills & knowledge amongst Africans.
The truth is there are wealth class differences within Africa despite the world grouping us together. And there's a reason some countries are not included in Europe's own continental travel VISA programme. We'd have to choose countries by economy & stability for our own African VISA-free travel system.
And in my system, a VISA-free travel model could be initially tried with: Seychelles, Mauritius, Gabon, Botswana, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Algeria, Namibia, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Eswatini, Djibouti, Morocco, Egypt, São Tomé & Príncipe, Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of Congo, Ghana, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia & Angola.
I'm a part-time cartographer & often make myself & others maps to understand the world better. In the map below is another VISA-free travel system model we could use.
Mainly;
• the countries in green could get continent-wide VISA-free entry for up to a year.
• The countries in yellow could get a vacation period VISA-free entry.
• The countries in orange & red would apply for VISA or entry into country.
