“Are you holding a valid visa for USA, UK, Germany… Chile, South Africa?”
Uhhmm. No. I am generally issued 10-day visas, two-week visas, one-month visas for certain countries if I am very lucky.

The next message on the screen read, “Unfortunately you are not eligible for a transit visa.” Just like that, I realized that my Turkey experience would be lived at the airport. I got back to the information counter sad at the realization that a valid Chilean visa was more readily accepted than my Kenyan passport.

I was led to a huge football stadium of a bedroom—filled with other black people, brown people, and some Arabs – those of us passport undesirables. I was shown my makeshift bed, given a pillow and a thin blanket. “You can stay here ’til your flight, tomorrow.”

How can an "African passport" be respected when the Africans do not respect African visas?

It took me 3 months to get a one month visa to Khartoum, I can't get a visa on arrival in SA, I have to leave Mozambique to renew my visa.

Why do we expect Europeans, Americans, Arabs etc to trust us if our fellow Africans can't trust us?

Between you and me - who should be asking the other for a visa on African soil