Africa is also exporting talented human resources to Europe and America. One million Africans are working outside Africa. At the same time, Africa spends four billion dollars a year on the salary of 100,000 foreign experts. Yet, African nations are unwilling to spend a similar amount of money to recruit one million African professionals working outside Africa. The problem is getting worse.
African university graduate live and work outside Africa.
In effect, we are operating one third of African universities to satisfy the manpower needs of western nations. One third of the African education budget is a supplement to the American education budget. In effect, Africa is giving developmental assistance to the United States. There are more Sierra Leonean medical doctors in Chicago than in Sierra Leone. At the rate medical doctors are leaving Nigeria, we could eventually have more Nigerian doctors working outside Nigeria than within it.