Living Here, Earning There: The Rise of Nigeria’s Digital Migrants
While physical migration continues to shape Nigeria’s labour landscape, a parallel shift is taking place. Digital migrants—professionals who work remotely for international clients and companies while remaining in Nigeria—are challenging the traditional narrative of talent loss
“My Parents Depend on Me for Rent”: Black Tax is Hammering the Luxury of International Education
For many African students abroad, black tax is not just a financial obligation—it is a quiet battle against exhaustion, guilt, and the ever-present fear of failure. The burden of being the family's economic backbone while juggling academic expectations.
Education Without Borders: African Students Abroad are Rethinking their Decisions Amidst Global Discrimination
Disturbing reports reveal instances where Ukrainian police and security personnel barred Nigerians from boarding buses and trains headed for the Ukraine-Poland border.
When VISA Inequality Hinders Cultural Mobility: “Art Knows No Bounds” Until It Reaches the Border
Who “deserves” to travel, to move, to emigrate? While the migration debate keeps on revolving around ‘illegalised’ travel to Europe, those who attempt to move 'legally' face ever-increasing visa constraints. The current visa system can be described as a form of “global apartheid”.
How Misinformation Fuelled Anti-Immigration Protests in the UK
According to Global reports, the anti-immigration protest in the UK fuelled by misinformation is the worst public disorder the country has had to deal with in over a decade.
Forced Migration: Conflict is Disrupting the Future of Education in Sudan
The violence which erupted between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), added fuel to a fire that was already burning — from ongoing conflicts, and outbreaks of disease — to a fragile economy, and a looming climate catastrophe.
Who Deserves to Emigrate? Mapping the Loopholes at the Africa-Italy Summit of 2024
Just as young Italians aspire to migrate elsewhere because their country fails to meet their needs, so do Nigerians, Gambians, Congolese, Somalis.
Climate Violence and Mobility in Zimbabwe: Survival for Domboshava Community Residents
In the peri-urban community of Domboshava in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe, a community 30 km away from Harare. Its people are heavily impacted by the effects of climate violence and mobility.
Voices Unheard: Women, Education, & the Battle Against United Kingdom's New Migration Policy
In September 2022, Akaniro arrived at Cambridge, UK, alongside her family to pursue a postgraduate degree in Public Policy. If she had waited a year longer, she would have found herself in a difficult situation of choosing between studying in the UK.
Away from Home: Ghana's Homophobia Employs a Calculated Media War
They did not catch me having sex or in any compromising position. Someone asked me, no, accused me, of being homosexual, and I said, 'Yes, that I was homosexual.' And the school suspended me.