Ras Mubarak, who is leading the trans-Africa tourism and unity campaign, has insisted that Africa cannot wait to be borderless in 2064.
He believes that Africa needs to be borderless now to afford the youth opportunities for growth in various sectors.
To him, achieving a borderless Africa can be done in the next five years, as other continents have been able to achieve that, and Africa can learn from them.
While addressing the media ahead of the trans-Africa tourism and unity campaign across 39 countries in Africa, Ras Mubarak explained that “Instead of the AU’s agenda, the AU has an agenda that by 2063 Africa should be borderless, and Africa should be visa-free, but I don’t know how many of you will be alive”.
He continued, “I do hope that you’ll be alive in forty years, but forty years is a long time for the young graduate who has finished the University of Nairobi, the University of Ghana, or the University for Development Studies and who is looking for opportunities. We aim to achieve a borderless Africa within the next five years, and it is possible. Other countries are doing it, and we can actually make it happen for our people”.
On how they intend to achieve their goal, Ras Mubarak disclosed that “we are going to passionately appeal to governments, so in every country we go to, we are presenting letters to the heads of state, and we are also meeting the media. We are hoping that civil society and the public will sufficiently support the course so that governments will see the need to have a united Africa so that our people can prosper.”
The Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign, spearheaded by former Kumbungu MP Ras Mubarak, has begun a 163-day journey across 39 African countries to press for a borderless and visa-free continent by 2030.
The campaign, which began at the Black Star Square in Accra on Monday morning, will see participants travel 40,000 kilometres, engaging with African leaders, civil society, and citizens along the route. The first stop is Lomé, Togo, before continuing to Benin, Nigeria and other countries across West, Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, with the journey ending back in Ghana
