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Funding Cuts
  • Yahuza Bawage
  • Yahuza Bawage
August 3, 2025

Funding Cuts: The Rising Decline in Africa's Global Talent

According to NAFSA, international students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy and supported 378,175 jobs during the 2023-2024 academic year. This revenue is generated from international students paying full tuition, which helps keep tuition lower for domestic students.

  • Giselle Musabimana
  • Giselle Musabimana
July 3, 2025

How Much Blood is in a Tomato? African Migrant Deaths & Agricultural Labour in Italy

Four years ago, I started mainly buying secondhand clothing. I timidly - but conceitedly - pride myself on never having purchased a single item from Shein or Temu. My unwavering love for food does not prevent me from seeing it as a political battleground, one that is not detached from ethics.

  • Prosper Ishaya
  • Prosper Ishaya
June 19, 2025

Denied: The Hidden Toll of Visa Rejections on African Travellers

But beyond this administrative hurdle lies the financial toll especially for Africans. As of March 2025, a standard EU Schengen visa fee was pegged at €110, (from last year's €90) but additional costs such as travel insurance, biometric fees, transportation to embassies, and courier charges can bump up expenses to nearly double the official fee in a single attempt.

  • Seyi Lasisi
  • Seyi Lasisi
May 22, 2025

A Timeline of Migrant Filmmaking in Africa: Addressing Migration through Visual Tropes

The active and inactive mental decision of these characters to leave, in my understanding, implies their continued refusal to accept the shoddy social, economical, cultural and political realities of their immediate environment and country. Their migration dream isn’t an apathetic decision.

  • Victor Ejechi
  • Victor Ejechi
April 10, 2025

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

Black tax
  • Akanni Oluwasegun Michael
  • Akanni Oluwasegun Michael
March 25, 2025

“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.

  • Promise Okezie
  • Promise Okezie
November 26, 2024

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.

Diaspora Africa
  • Giselle Musabimana
  • Giselle Musabimana
September 11, 2024

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”.

Anti-immigration protest UK
  • Nusaiba Ibrahim
  • Nusaiba Ibrahim
August 20, 2024

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.

Sudan
  • Yahuza Bawage
  • Yahuza Bawage
June 20, 2024

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.

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