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Guest Commentator

Jacques Sotero Agboton

Jacques Sotero Agboton is the author of Philosophy of Engagement (An ideological basis for the liberation of African people). His Website is www.jsapublishing.com.

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Guest Commentary

Bring Down Your Airfares or Get Out of Africa

By Jacques Sotero Agboton Guest Commentator

There are no reasons for airlines to charge African passengers 4 to 5 times higher fares than passengers of Europe, Asia and the Middle-East for the same-duration flights. It is apparent that the prohibitive airfares are to limit African passengers from crossing frontiers where they can explore, personally, environments so far denied them by white…

There are no reasons for airlines to charge African passengers 4 to 5 times higher fares than passengers of Europe, Asia and the Middle-East for the…

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