Why do Africans leave their countries willy-nilly?

Africans don’t just leave their countries. There are legitimate reasons for their emigration. In their piece on international emigration, four migration scholars, led by Prof Douglas Massey, in 1993, advanced “Theories of migration,” distinguishing between those initiating the process and those perpetuating it.

Two years later, the Australian professor Reginald T. Appleyard led a group of migration scholars from the developing world on the project Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries, which, in 1995, produced four volumes on sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean; and the Arab World.