 If you had a chance to change one thing in Africa, what would you change? Good morning. Good morning, sir. Am I speaking with the consulate or the embassy of Congo in Ghana? Thank you. So I wanted to find out how much does a visa fee cost to go to Congo? And what about multiple entry? Multiple entry is $300. Which one is the $400? Because I'm seeing the $400 on the internet. The $400. Oh, okay. I've always wanted to go to DR Congo. But since the cheapest visa to get me to DR Congo is $250, of which I think this will be my most expensive visa that I've ever applied, of which I think is ridiculous. Because if you want Africans to travel within Africa, $250 to $400, as visa fees is really mind-blowing. But thank God we have Congo in Ghana. This is Zaire. The former name of Congo. I love the fact that this part of Ghana is Africa. You can find all countries' capital in there. But after walking through the streets of Congo in Ghana, I felt like that is not enough because this project is Africa to the world, changing the narrative of African countries, but promoting Africa in a positive way, one country at a time. But it's time to promote DRC. But I think the visa is extremely expensive. It's extremely expensive. One person acquiring visa fee just to visit Congo and it's $250 USD. It's so expensive. And this is going to be the most expensive visa we have ever applied. And I think that you do something about it. And when we get there, we should ask them the reason why it has to be $250. Because there is no way that we have ever visited that we've been an amount even up to $200. And it's not just $250. It ranges from $250 to $400, of which I think is really ridiculous, man. It's really ridiculous. I mean, if you want Africans to travel within Africa or if you even want to attract tourism into Congo, why must you charge that outrageous amount? If that is the case, you're actually killing tourism. You know, Congo has a bad name out there. And I think it's about time you open up so that people will come to Congo and experience the real beauty of Congo so that they will be telling the beautiful stories about Congo. I mean, we will not give up. We're still going to spend the money. So we're currently here at DRC. You can see the flag waving so high. And let's just go and pay the $250. And this is why I always say that whenever we come to your country, be nice to us, man. And some of the border immigration officers are so rude to the extent that when you arrive, sometimes people don't expect an African to travel within Africa. I mean, what has been one of your worst experiences at the border, man? At the border. The way Africans treat the Afro-Africans, it's so bad to the extent that you will be in the line with a white person or a fellow African country from maybe from the East. And I don't know. I don't know what these three passports have done to some of the people in Africa or some of the immigration officers in Africa. The moment they see these three passports, you are a suspect. Because I think they consider you to be a criminal, which is not supposed to be so because we are all Africans. I shouldn't be in the line with a white man. Then you don't ask the white man any questions because you think he's a white man. He just passed and you just put the stamp boom then. When I get there, you ask me so many questions to the extent that sometimes you even want to see what a bank accountant is. I'm telling you. How can you ask someone that you want to see the person a bank accountant? I remember, there was a country that I went to that they told me I should go and check my bank account for them to see how much money I have in the account before they can allow me to enter the country. In Africa, man. It's nothing. We need an African passport to allow Africans to move from one country to another. It's really crazy. So this is the Congo Embassy and we're going to apply. We cannot put camera in there. So we'll see you after we get back. Some of you might be saying that $250 is cheap or the money I pay for it. I'm going to pay, but I just want to let you know that I'm not doing this video for myself. Even as a Congolese, you might be mad because I'm saying that visa fees in Congo is extremely expensive. You might think that I want to make your country look bad. See, I'll be the last person to make an African country look bad. But I think it's time for a change. That's why I'm doing this video. I will pay the $250, but I think after this video something must be done. That's why I hope each and every one of you watching this video will definitely share this video because we definitely need Tribeless Africa. Shout out to African Traveler for gifting me this t-shirt. But you can see, the message tells us Tribeless Africa. That's what we need. And Borderless Africa. He also has the Borderless Africa. I use the Borderless Africa because I wish we can remove border so that it can allow Africans to move within Africa. See, I'm not saying remove the borders. The borders can be there. But make it so easy for Africans to move within their own continent. If you are from Europe with an European passport, you can go everywhere. But if you are from Africa with a Ghanaian passport, how many countries can I go with a Ghanaian passport? This is why I'm saying that we need a borderless Africa. Big mistake we have made is by making each other competitors. We are not competing. Our problem is that we are not working closer together to meet the demands that our people have. And as I was telling another gathering, you know these borders, and I also mentioned to my brother, these borders that you create silos for yourselves a month, you must always remember are not your creation. These were creations of people outside of this continent who made these borders not to develop you but to extract from you. Now that you want to develop yourself, we must start looking at these borders and we must start removing the barriers that we have put, that have defined and defined us in the past. And now, hinder us from being the giant that we should be. I finally got hold of my passport in less than 24 hours. So I would say that a big shout out to the Congo Embassy in Ghana for this has been one of the fastest visa I've ever applied in all my trips in Africa. I guess the more money you pay, the faster your visa. But hey, I just want to say this, man. I'm not here to make Congo look bad but I feel like I have a platform that we can use this platform to change something. So if you are watching this video please don't be mad at me because I know that you have friends abroad who would love to visit your country but knowing that visiting your country you have to pay this amount of money to enter your country is actually ridiculous. And I believe that it's going to be embarrassing telling your friends to come with you and at the end of the day knowing that you're paying $250 to $400 as what visa fees. So I asked the ambassador why is it so expensive to apply for Congo's visa and he is saying that they did that just to reciprocate what Ghana is doing in Congo. So I decided to go to Congo and find out for myself. Congo has been one of the most expensive trips ever for the ticket was so expensive. Going to Congo is extremely expensive. Not just the visa but even the ticket. Can you believe it? We're planning to go to Congo on the 31st of August and the cheapest flight is what? $828. See. 1st of September even if you go on 1st of September same price. 2nd of September same price. The cheapest price here is what? 3rd of September. Can you guys see this? See. 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th same prices man. It's you know and this will even take us 22 hours for us to get there. So if you want to go with a 7 hours flight which is going to cost you what? $1239. I don't know what are we going to do in Congo that we have to spend this amount of money man. But trust me traveling in Africa is not really encouraging at all. It's not giving Africans the chance to explore their own continent because to me it's I feel like it's so ridiculous traveling in Africa man. 2nd the visa fees was actually one of the most expensive visa I've ever applied. And we had a problem because we arrived at the airport very late yesterday and you know I have one of my crew PC hi. Right. Tanzania. So PC is from Tanzania so you know we're still trying to have that Pan-African movement and from Ghana PC is from Tanzania my girlfriend is from Kenya PC is from Nigeria very soon my guest someone from the North Africa because I was the only person that I think I don't have in my team for now and when we research online he doesn't need a visa to come to Congo. What do you need then? Visa on arrival 7 days. Visa on arrival for 7 days. So when we landed yesterday what happened? They asked they told me like visa, visa fee but it's written like I'm not supposed to pay like the first 7 days is for free it's on arrival. Then if I have to extend I have to pay but then they say like no you have to pay all the way 90 US dollars at the airport which is not true what I know. Which is not true. We tried to pay with a car they said no they don't need a car they want first car cash so that's why we are going to the airport right now because they seized the passport yesterday so we just woke up very early going to the airport to grab the passport that's one thing that I did not like is that when we landed what do you call it the COVID test I mean it was we've paid before coming but you decided to test us but it didn't give us our results so now we don't have our results so we have answers of having a COVID test and not having a result over there but you've taken the money even before we landed some things that happens in Africa is a bit shady it's a bit fishy that you simply can't understand I mean Ghana is charging $150 which sometimes I think it's very ridiculous but at the end of the day you have your result right at the airport which makes so much sense but here we go here we never got our results they've taken the money you see what I'm saying it's so expensive to come to Congo $45 times 3 we also did a COVID test in Ghana $50 times 3 combine it together this trip is almost $6,000 already thank you we just left the airport peace got his passport right now and also he got the visa but something that really shocked us yesterday they were telling us you have to pay what $90 for what $30 visa but apparently when we got there they decided to give him a week visa and arrival just for 7 days is just it's not just it's $90 you know how much $90 is going to do and I don't even know what they are using the money for did you know that we actually spent $2,536 on visa only? that's crazy right but I'm going to break it down for you because I had the receipt right in front of me I mean the single entry to enter Congo we were 2 right so me and Steven we had to pay $250 which makes it $500 when I was in Congo I had a call from Utopia Airlines that I have to fly to Utopia so because of that I need to exit Congo and come back again exiting Congo I really wanted to come back because I really want to put Congo on the map like I said when I got to Congo that's why I even got my share Napenda Congo which means that I really love Congo so in order for us to get out of Congo we had to apply for another which is a multiple entry visa that will allow us to come back to Congo if we exit Congo and that visa fee alone cost us $250 again as a multiple entry so 2 of us $500 don't forget that piece has already paid $390 which I explained in the previous videos when you check online as a Tanzanian holding an historical passport you get 7 days of arrival to Congo and when I arrived at the airport these guys were asking me where is your visa I told them ok it's here I get visa free 7 days but they said no no no you have to pay for it and then you say how much $90 which is almost ridiculous ridiculous and which doesn't make sense we pay the $90 then they gave me the 7 days then applying for a visa for 30 days they told me in the beginning they said like $180 US dollars then you have to buy a form imagine a visa form is $50 visa form $180 plus the $50 and also because it was around $230 then the guy said like there's another charge which is almost $50 again so the total is almost $280 plus the $90 it came up to the total of $370 which doesn't make any sense that only means like maybe like I think the problem is maybe in the government maybe they expect investors to come to the country and not regular citizens and stuff like that so do the math and let's go we left Congo and we decided to come back that's why we found ourselves in Gisenye Goma border and it was such a beautiful border and I was excited to enter Congo again and when I got there apparently my visa expires on that same day we told them that if the visa has expired what do we do then they said we need to apply for another visa right at the border they wanted to charge us $400 or $300 at the border but I told them that at that particular moment so we had to go to Gisenye again and apply for the visa from Kinshasa and that visa alone was $300 each I was with Steven so $300 each times 2 that is $600 I was so excited when I got my visa because I can't wait to put Congo on the map then I go to the border again and they told me that you know what you need another money which is $90 as what a border stamp I've already paid $300 times 2 and they are telling me that I need to pay another $90 as a visa stamp and it was a border stamp or something it was ridiculous which adds up to $390 times 2 again I've never seen any country that you have to pay $390 for 7 days visa you know the $300 that we paid I thought it can take us through the entire genies in Congo but they told us that that visa it's only for 7 days it's actually the visa if you want to verify I'm going to show you all of that I'm not here to make things up but I'm doing this video because I want things to change you know what after 7 days I decided to leave the country because I couldn't afford to pay for another visa because I asked them that if I have to apply for another visa how much is it going to be can you believe that another one-man visa in the country cost you $183 dollars I shit tears within my body it didn't come out because paying all those money was painful because all I wanted to do was to put Congo on the map but why do I have to go through all of that just to put a country on the map I love what I do and I was not done with what I was done with the reason why I went to Congo so I had to pay for the visa fees again it was $183 once again multiplied that by 2 let me tell you something that I found in Congo that I think it has to change you know when we're going to Addis Ababa we had to exit the country right and they told us that we need to pay an amount of $55 as go pass and that's the go pass it's an airport tax you know your visa your ticket alone is extremely expensive so why do we still have to pay another airport tax and trust me I'm just gonna be honest right here everything at the Congo airport is manual from the checking of your bags to getting your ticket to I mean everything is manual I feel like they are charging everybody $55 before they exit Congo and something has to be done that money must be invested wisely but I feel like that money is not invested wisely at the airport because when you get to the airport it's extremely messy I'm not trying to make Congo look bad but I'm just trying to tell you that this has to change because Congolese deserves better if Congolese are not ready to talk I'll be the spokesperson for the Congolese people because I feel like there should be a voice that speak against all these things I mean the mood today that's why I'm speaking against this it's a must for you to pay $55 as go pass before you exit Congo imagine the number of people that are flying out of Congo that has to pay that amount of money don't you think it's ridiculous even as a Congolese it's by force for you to pay the money but if you are paying the money the money should be used wisely but I don't think the money is used wisely because I was in Congo myself and let me tell you something even the domestic flight you still have to pay a go pass I paid it myself it's $15 each currently at Goma airport heading to Kinshasha and like I told you earlier in Kinshasha getting out of the country you have to pay a go pass of $55 but we are here going from Goma to Kinshasha and you still have to pay a go pass and listen it's not like I'm against this but the airport doesn't fit this amount of money like the money that you guys are taking you are used to to fix the airport look at me standing like literally I'm standing waiting for the plane it doesn't look attractive everything in here is like literally manual but the people are paying a lot of money for this man where is the money going this is the kind of question that I'm asking I really want to know how much is the go pass man the go pass is no problem but how much is the charge here they ask you to pay the money no but the go pass is $50 just $15 so like the private is like $15 for go pass international is $55 wow these are the things that I found in Congo that I think something can be done on it apart from all being said why my trip in Congo became so expensive is that Steven right here the one holding the camera crashed the drone and it was so ridiculous going through shops by shops in Congo just to find a drone that a drone that cost $400 $500 was sold $2,000 in Congo please I'm not here to blame the government but I'm also here to blame the people for taking advantage of your own people we can do better this honesty in Africa is getting way out of hand how do you expect the society to move forward if we all of us act dishonest Africans deserve better Africans deserve better the first day we got here we went to the Ghana embassy in Congo but first we went to the Congo embassy in Ghana to ask them the reason why the visa fee has to be so expensive for them to travel to Congo but they told us Ghanians in Congo are charging $250 so they did that to reciprocate what Ghanians are doing in Congo so when we got here we also went to the Ghana embassy in Congo to ask them the same question exactly and this is what they told us they told us that 20 years ago the visa fee for Congolese going to Ghana was just less than $50 and then they changed it to $50 and then later on they changed it to $150 if you check the visa fee for anyone going to Ghana the maximum is $150 and now they are charging $250 and also $450 you know why they told us it's because of what Congo is charging in Ghana after they did their research so when they did their research that amount of money because it's not fair for Ghanians to pay that amount of money and Congolese are paying $50 or $150 and that is why they decided to put the visa fee to $250 and for me I think we should use this platform to change this I don't want you to watch this video and watch it alone I want you to watch this and share this video because we need to create awareness you know imagine how many people can afford $250 just to go to another African country to experience it you just came back from Ghana you applied for a visa in Kinshasha how much did you pay to get to Ghana? in $400 and in COVID $500 so which means that you spent over almost $700 we don't have the tickets I want to know your flight ticket well I have to explain because I bought a ticket in Kinshasha go and see go and see the message is very simple this must change now allow Africans to travel within Africa allow Africans to experience Africa because Africa belong to Africans thank you once again I think that's all that happened and I hope you all can help me tag officials that needs to see this video then I hope that this video can cause a change so please do me a favor like the video, it's very important if you are watching this video, can you like it and today is your first time seeing this annoying face 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