A 40,000-kilometre odyssey that will touch every corner of the continent has begun.
On Monday, 18 August 2025, a convoy rolled out of Accra to launch the Trans-African Tourism & Unity Campaign—a 163-day, 39-country road map for a border-free Africa by 2030.
The ambitious expedition, organized by a coalition of pan-African advocacy groups and business leaders, will see a team of drivers and activists traverse the continent by road over the coming months. Their mission is to symbolically break down barriers and directly experience the challenges of intra-African travel, all while rallying public and political support for the African Union’s goal of a visa-free Africa by 2030.
WHO & WHY
Led by former Ghanaian MP and Pan-Africanist Ras Mubarak, and formally endorsed by Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the campaign is a rolling petition for the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Its simple demand: visas should no longer decide who can explore Africa.
THE ROUTE
From Accra the wheels turn east to Lomé (Togo), then snake through Cotonou (Benin) and Lagos (Nigeria). The convoy will keep moving—Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the two Congos, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia—before looping north via the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, and finally returning to Ghana.
WHAT HAPPENS ALONG THE WAY
• Letters of appeal delivered to Heads of State urging visa-free policies
• Press briefings in every capital
• Pop-up cultural showcases celebrating each nation’s heritage
• Tourism round-tables with investors, hoteliers, creatives and young entrepreneuthe rs
THE PARTNERS
A cross-sector alliance—government (Office of the Chief of Staff, Ghana), telecoms (Telecel Ghana), energy (GNPC), finance (National Investment Bank, Stanbic Bank Ghana), hospitality (Kempinski Gold Coast City, Radisson Blu Brazzaville), mining (Afrimex Gold, Ghana Gold Board), insurance (GLICO), civil-society coalitions (Africans Rising, Pan African Progressive Front) and more—has fuelled the convoy
Open borders are more than policy; they are an invitation to rediscover shared identity, unleash youth enterprise and turn the continent’s 1.4 billion stories into one unstoppable narrative.