007. MIGRATION AND BRAIN DRAIN IN AFRICA - BANTABA

In the past decades, Africa has experienced massive migration and brain drain from the continent, owing to one or more factors that are yet to be addressed. According to the Push-Pull theory, to understand an individual’s motivation to migrate, you have to look at the sociological factors. It explains it on the basis of differences in the level of development between the origin and destination countries. The poor application and, sometimes absence, of regulation on workers’ mobility in Africa hinders the opportunities that can be brought by intra-continental migration, particularly during periods of economic crisis or political tensions, when reticence towards interregional migration tends to expand. This episode explains factors responsible for massive brain drain in Africa.