Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:39:32 +0000 By Philip Chirwa “DO you have a valid passport?” my manager asked me in a rather non-committal tone. I had to keep pace with him because he was walking fast towards his car. “Yes, sir,” I answered without much gusto. “A valid one?” he insisted. “It’s valid.” ‘’If I had to send you to a foreign country tomorrow, would your passport work?’’ he probed further. Again I answered in the affirmative. By now we had reached his car. I was standing by his car, not knowing what he was up to when he pushed his head out of the window and threw these words to me, “We will talk tomorrow.” This short conversation triggered the opportunity to fly for the first time in my life. In Africa, air travel is mainly an exclusive preserve of the well-to-do. Even if you were in formal employment like in my case, working […]
FLOATING ON AIR AS FATHER AND SON LAND IN A WRONG COUNTRY!
