{"id":919469,"date":"2022-01-25T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/larry-madowo-africans-shouldnt-need-visas-to-travel-within-continent\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:59:56","slug":"larry-madowo-africans-shouldnt-need-visas-to-travel-within-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/larry-madowo-africans-shouldnt-need-visas-to-travel-within-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Madowo: Africans shouldn&#039;t need visas to travel within continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img border border-light\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/edutggje61nkforapit561efe2b75f978.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 text-center\"><strong>Larry was reacting to a series of tweets by a Nigerian national who complained about not being allowed to enter Mozambique<\/strong> [Courtesy]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Kenyan journalist and CNN International Correspondent Larry Madowo has shared his sentiments on a visa-free Africa. According to him, Africans shouldn\u2019t need visas to travel within the continent. In tweet, Larry termed the limitations as colonial borders that do not make any sense. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfricans shouldn\u2019t need visas to travel within Africa. These colonial borders don\u2019t make sense. Spread the word,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>Larry was reacting to a series of tweets by a Nigerian national who complained about not being allowed to enter Mozambique without a letter of invitation that enables one to get a visa. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">???? Africans shouldn\u2019t need visas to travel within Africa. These colonial borders don\u2019t make sense. Spread the word https:\/\/t.co\/9JGbpUqyqW<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Larry Madowo (@LarryMadowo) January 23, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI left Lagos to Mozambique last week. I planned to be there for about a week and return to Nigeria. As I always do before travel, I researched travel and visa requirements. What I found for citizens of Nigeria is that we can get visa on arrival,\u201d read a tweet by @pamelaadie. <\/p>\n<p>According to @pamelaadie, the immigration officer revealed that she must provide a letter of invitation from the Mozambican embassy in Nigeria inviting her to the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immigration officer asked for my passport, hotel, and return ticket. I provided those. Then she asked me for my visa. I didn\u2019t understand why she was asking for that when everything we searched said visa on arrival. She insisted that yes, I\u2019ll get visa on arrival but\u2026 I will have to provide a letter of invitation. I asked where\/who the letter was to come from, she said it has to come from the Mozambican embassy in my country inviting me. Her English wasn\u2019t really great so I often asked her to repeat her questions, which I think angered her,\u201d said @pamelaadie. <\/p>\n<p>This comes amidst conversations of reviewing Africa\u2019s laws to ease movement within the continent. According to the African Union, the Agenda 2063 flagship project <em>The African Passport and Free Movement of People<\/em> aims to remove restrictions on African\u2019s ability to travel, work and live within their own continent. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/entertainment\/article\/2001435504\/larry-madowo-africans-shouldn-t-need-visas-to-travel-within-continent\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry was reacting to a series of tweets by a Nigerian national who complained about not being allowed to enter Mozambique [Courtesy] Kenyan journalist and CNN International Correspondent Larry Madowo has shared his sentiments on a visa-free Africa. According to him, Africans shouldn\u2019t need visas to travel within the continent. In tweet, Larry termed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}