Curbing Brain Drain: A Perspective of African Graduates in the US

In this chapter, Joseph Rudigi Rukema and Mosa Nkoko examine the growing international migration as a global phenomenon that is unavoidable. In Africa, thousands of people move to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries such as the US, the UK, Canada, France, and Germany to name a few and they are made up of highly skilled migrants from their respective home countries. Migrants who are considered highly skilled not only consist of occupation professionals but also students who have completed their university education in their home countries and decided to further their studies abroad with the hope to come back and better their lives and that of their families. In recent years, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have witnessed an increase in the number of skilled individuals moving to OECD countries with little hope of returning to their countries of origin.