An African Scientist's Migration Story
You’ve seen the headlines, watched the news videos, and live news clips online. Migration is constantly in the news. Each year, more young African men keep climbing fences into European Union territory, says the International Organization for Migration. They join the tens of thousands of West Africans migrants in Morocco and more than half a million in Libya, determined to go North. Research commissioned by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that about a million West Africans with a degree migrated to another, usually better off, country outside the region in 2010/11. A whopping 92 percent rise from 2000/01. In total, 13 percent of all degree holders from Sub-Saharan Africa emigrated over this period, the highest proportion of any region around the world, the report said. Theodora Xenogiani, an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development researcher and an author of the report , said a major cause of this migration is highly educated peop...
