If you have a program to visit every part of Africa from A (Angola) to Z (Zimbabwe), you need to plan in detail, and save yourself some embarrassment and irritation often associated with travel to parts of the world. Sometimes, the journey there can be very risky and unstable, depending on the state you choose to visit and health risks are everyday affairs.
1. Get visa, renew your passport
The most important document in your travel, passport, must apply for a minimum of six months from the date your travel begins. If you find that the same is approaching its expiry date, have it updated and then apply for a visa. Visa rules change often, depending on the desires and fancies of politicians. It is highly desirable to contact the embassy of the country to be visited at least two months before the date of departure, and to know the latest visa rules that apply to your nationality, your mind, not the state where you live. Quite a few African countries offer visa on landing in it. You will be charged the required fee and passport stamped. But, there are others that require you to get a visa beforehand. You are asked to fill in a prescribed form and submit your passport along with a certain fee to the embassy. Taken together, collect contact details from the embassy or consulate in your country in the countries you plan to visit. It would be helpful to know from your country's embassy about the health risks, terrorist alerts and incoming rules and regulations etc.
2. Tips to book your flight
Obtain economical flight to the African countries is rather difficult unless you are traveling from Europe to give the advantage of low air fares to Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and the destination of some types of Gambia. Overall, there is almost no competition for the most goals in Africa. Typically, a full flight and the tickets are expensive as a consequence. So, immediately after booking your safari or accommodation is completed, you should not delay buying your tickets. You may consider seeking the help of tour operators or spend some time and do your own research on the Internet. Two of the popular search engines for that purpose are Cheaptickets.com and Bootsnall. You can compare prices and choose the one that best suits your needs. This is an excellent opportunity to use your miles points. If they are not good enough to fly to your chosen destination in Africa, using it to fly to London or Paris and from there to book a separate ticket for onward journey. It should be added here that you should always have a plane ticket to go home with you each time entering the African country. Some states do not allow you to visit them in the absence of a return ticket, and Nigeria happens to be one of them.