A new Pan-African, people-driven campaign aimed at dismantling travel and trade barriers within Africa is set to mobilise more than 10 million Africans and members of the global diasporaahead of the 40th African Union Summit in 2027.
The initiative, known as “Make Africa Borderless Now!”, will be formally launched at the Africa Prosperity Dialogues 2026 in Accra, Ghana, and is being championed by the Africa Prosperity Network.
According to the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Network, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, the campaign is designed to ensure that continental integration moves beyond policy documents into popular action.
“It will be the first time that the socio-economic integration project will be made to be owned and driven by the people, especially the youth, whose future is at stake,” he said.
Unlike previous Pan-African integration efforts driven primarily by state actors, the Make Africa Borderless Now! campaign is structured around digital participation and grassroots mobilisation.
“Our strategy is deliberately ‘people-powered.’ This is a Global African mobilisation ecosystem,” Mr Otchere-Darko stated.
He explained that the movement will harness social media platforms, online petition tools and a dedicated web platform that allows Africans and supporters of the continent to “sign, share,” and actively contribute to the campaign, including competing to design its official logo.
The organisers also plan to engage cultural influencers, community radio stations, religious bodies, traditional authorities, youth groups and women’s associations across the continent.
The ultimate aim of the campaign is to present the collected signatures directly to African Heads of State at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa in February 2027, in what organisers describe as a direct appeal for political action on free movement.
“This campaign asks a historic question: Can 10 million African voices move 55 African governments?” Mr Otchere-Darko asked, answering emphatically “Yes, if those voices become a single continental roar.”
Beyond mobilisation, the campaign is anchored on a twelve-pillar roadmap advocating visa-free travel across Africa, open skies, a continent-wide biometric passport and digital African ID, a single customs union, harmonised trade laws, seamless digital payments, trans-African infrastructure corridors, and a unified African position in global negotiations.
“These echo long-agreed frameworks… but which have waited decades for action,” the post noted.
Mr Otchere-Darko stressed that the movement’s success depends on ordinary Africans insisting that integration becomes a lived reality.
“Our belief is simple and powerful: Africa’s greatest strength lies in its unity, particularly, economic unity, and the time to finally achieve it is now,” he said.
The campaign’s rallying call to Africans at home and abroad, he added, is straightforward: “Sign. Share. Mobilise. Demand your freedom of movement.”
