I need 35 visas to travel within Africa but French & European Tourists Roam Freely Aliko Dangote Imagine being Africa's wealthiest man and the richest black person in the world with a staggering net worth of $13.5 billion, and yet still needing 35 visas to travel across your own continent to conduct business. This is the sad reality faced by Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, who shared his frustrations with Africa's visa system at the justended Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. At the conference, Africa’s richest man lashed out at the bureaucratic nightmare he endures to move across Africa, revealing the absurdity and inequity of the visa requirements that hobble African business leaders, contrasting it sharply with the privileged mobility enjoyed by Europeans.

Dangote, visibly frustrated, recounted his recent grievance to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who was in attendance at the CEO Summit. "I still complained to President Kagame. I told him that as an investor, I have to now apply for 35 different visas on my passport," he lamented. "I told Mr. President, I really don't have the time to go and be dropping my passports in embassies to get a visa," he said. Dangote's criticism didn't stop at the mere inconvenience of having to drop his passports at various embassies across the continent for visa approvals. He also pointed to the blatant favouritism shown towards foreign investors in the visa application process. "But you see, the most annoying thing is that yes, if you are treating everybody the same, then I can understand," he added. Using the French passport as an example, Dangote highlighted the fact that Mr Patrick Pouyanne, chairman of Total Energies, does not need 35 visas on his French passport to gain access to African countries. "You don't need 35 visas on your French passport. This means you have a freer movement than myself in Africa," he said. The irony is as bitter as it is blatant: the richest man in Africa, a symbol of the continent's entrepreneurial spirit, is hamstrung by the very borders that should be enabling his progress. And yet foreign nationals have an easier time accessing visas, an irony that seems lost on African policymakers.

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