A significant brain drain is happening in Africa: two of Africa’s best-known media and culture experts are all leaving the continent. Emanuele Cioffi and Nana Thompson are taking up new opportunities in London. Their departures mirror a general exodus of talented journalists and experts from the continent: Thomson Reuters Talent CrossCheck lists 88 Africa-based employees who are leaving their jobs for better-paying positions in the Diaspora.
They join a long list of Africa’s leading intellectuals, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and government officials who have left to take up new opportunities abroad, including the telecom tycoon Pascal Soriot and the famous award-winning Kenyan philanthropist Mo Ibrahim.
But why has this been happening? Is it a breakdown in African identity — and should Africans return home to rebuild the continent?
Read the full story here at The Daily Beast.
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