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World Passport Index · Africa
Africa is where we started. Our first research sprint covers 15 passports from Southern, East and West Africa. Regional membership (SADC, EAC, ECOWAS) never counts as proof of visa-free entry here: only the destination's own published rules do.
An empty cell means we haven't verified that pair on an official source yet.
France stands for all 29 Schengen states plus Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus, which share the EU visa list.
| Passport | 🇿🇦 South Africa | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | 🇿🇲 Zambia | 🇧🇼 Botswana | 🇰🇪 Kenya | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | 🇺🇬 Uganda | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | 🇸🇨 Seychelles | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 🇫🇷 Schengen | 🇺🇸 United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇼 Botswana | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Home | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇸🇿 Eswatini | Visa-free30 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇬🇭 Ghana | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Visa required | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Home | Visa-free180 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇱🇸 Lesotho | Visa-free30 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇲🇼 Malawi | Visa-free30 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Entry restricted |
| 🇲🇿 Mozambique | Visa-free30 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇳🇦 Namibia | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa required | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | Visa required | eVisa | eVisa | Visa required | Visa-free60 days | Not yet verified | Visa required | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Entry restricted |
| 🇷🇼 Rwanda | Visa required | Visa on arrival | Visa on arrival | Visa required | Visa-free180 days | Visa-free180 days | Visa-free | Home | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | Home | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa required | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇹🇿 Tanzania | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free180 days | Home | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Entry restricted |
| 🇺🇬 Uganda | Visa required | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free180 days | Visa-free180 days | Home | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Visa required |
| 🇿🇲 Zambia | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Home | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free90 days | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Entry restricted |
| 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | Visa-free90 days | Home | Visa-free | Visa-free | Visa-free90 days | Not yet verified | Visa-free | Visa on arrival | Electronic travel authorisation | Visa required | Visa required | Entry restricted |
Regions follow the African Union's five regions.
Next: Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho, Eswatini, Ghana, Nigeria and Mauritius as destinations, then the Gulf and Asia. Many African governments publish their rules only as PDFs or on portals that are hard to read, so we add each one when we can confirm it.