People-to-people connection creates a multiplier effect that no summit or donor programme can replicate.
Air travel within Africa is too expensive, due to overregulation, closed airspace deals, and bilateral protectionism.
In a rare policy shift that promises real economic upside, Kenya has announced visa-free entry for all African nationals, except Libya and Somalia, and most Caribbean countries. Visitors from the continent will be allowed to stay for up to 60 days. Kenya joins Rwanda, The Gambia, Benin, and Seychelles that have embraced the idea of a borderless Africa. It’s a quiet revolution with powerful implications for trade, tourism, and our collective future.
The last time Kenya lifted visa restrictions with a fellow African country, it triggered a 30 per cent surge in travel. That was with South Africa, in 2023, and it happened within just three months. When bureaucratic barriers are removed, people move. And when they do, they trade, invest, connect. People-to-people connection creates a multiplier effect that no summit or donor programme can replicate.
