Roaming the streets of Mauritania. I know applying for visas as an African is tedious and one of the worst experiences you will ever go through. I have first-hand experience of this. I have had to apply for 14 visas for my #BreakingBorders journey, I only applied for 6 visas and these are visas I had to get from my country of residence. I have spent over R7000 (US$520) in 6 weeks applying for visas. Bear in mind I only had to pay for 3 visas. Nigeria, Morocco and The Gambia. The amounts for all these visas did not even get to R2000 (US$180). The rest of the money was wasted on transport, photo prints, photocopying the various documents to make sure that they have stripped me naked and know everything about me, my travel history and non-existent criminal record. And yes, most of the visas I had to apply for were free of charge. In these costs, I don’t account for my wasted time. I remember my last day traveling from Johannesburg to Pretoria going to fetch the last ...