I can see the leadership of Senegal has a planned development agenda which I commend.
In 2007, I traveled to Dakar, Senegal for a workshop in Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and Ethics in Human Research by Africa Malaria Network Trust (AMANET). The program was held in Al Afifa, one of the 5-star hotels at that time. As the first international travel I was making, my eyes were widely opened more than those of eagles to see. I was doing just as the adage has always been “travel and see”.
Using Air Cote d’Ivoire, I was routed through the Houphouet Boaigne Airport where for the first time I disembarked and embarked my connecting flight using an aerobridge. Like the blind man who received his healing, all I knew was that I saw no tarmac but just the vessel through immigration processes and vice versa.
That I did not see when I landed in Dakar. I was not impressed at all. I was proud to have come from Kotoka International Airport. In my view, filth was engulfing the national airport.
As if they read my mind even as a first-time traveler at that time, my recent travel 10 years after the initial one shocked me to the bones. The shock came because of what I was not expecting to see. Within the period, I got the opportunity to travel through other airports and countries and had in mind the picture of the airport I saw in 2007 in Dakar.
When we landed, I was telling someone that, the renovation has been massive coupled with the new name for the airport. It was at this point that I was educated to know that Blaise Daigne Airport was newly built. The airport was started in 2007 and opened for use in December 2017. Unlike in Ghana where I am a citizen, I did not need to fill any immigration form but successfully had my documents checked by the immigration officers. Everything was electronic and made the processes faster and easier.
To be continued …….
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