For many young Africans, the dream of a borderless continent is not just a policy conversation; it is the difference between opportunity and limitation, between progress and stagnation.

Across the continent, thousands of young people continue to wrestle with visa restrictions, expensive permits, and rigid borders that shape their lives in far more personal ways than policymakers often imagine.

It’s time to tell their stories.

Imoh Edet brings us these Stories of talents slowed down by paperwork of ideas held hostage by bureaucracy and of a continent whose unity remains stalled at the gates of immigration offices