Diaspora Debate

Francois Hollande’s victory in France’s recent Presidential election may have dampened the focus on the stubborn rise in support for France’s far-right Front National and its leader Marine Le Pen; yet the general rise of the far right across Europe

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The race to secure the office of Mayor of London for the next four years is on, but does anyone care about a competition that appears to be a dead heat between two predictably ‘neck and neck’ frontrunners? For Diaspora

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There is perhaps no greater totem of the diaspora’s potential to transform Africa than Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.  It is no great surprise that she is being touted as a serious candidate for the role of World

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The perennial worry of migrant producing states has always been that their emigrating populations have left for good, taking their skills, labor and crucially income (taxable or otherwise) with them. In recent times, the buoyant volume of remittances from emigrants

Read the rest of Your Wad is my Bond: Are Diaspora Bonds Worth the Risk for Diaspora Africans? – By Dele Meiji Fatunla »

I haven’t read the NEXT article mentioned in the previous post on this, but far worse things than that particular ex-diaspora, former multilateral director minister have floated to the top of the cesspit of Nigerian politics; yet diaspora returnees are

Read the rest of What’s diaspora got to do with it indeed? – By Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie »

To the question in this blog’s inviting post “What’s Diaspora got to do with it?”[1] I offer one answer– “social capital”. The World Bank defines ‘social capital’ as “the norms and networks that enable collective action” and states “increasing evidence

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Beyond the broad categorizations of the African diaspora and rhetorical questions posed by Dele Fatunla in his blog post, “What’s Diaspora Got To Do With It?”, he raises an important and timely question about what role the African diaspora plays

Read the rest of Defining the diaspora’s role and potential with Africa (a response to ‘What’s diaspora got to do with it?’) – By Semhar Araia »

It’s fast becoming commonplace to say Africa is experiencing a renaissance. Many of its countries, once bywords for hopeless basket cases, have made a sharp turn away from skid row onto Prosperity Avenue, their booming economies, growing populations and returning

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Diaspora Debate is the newest blog on African Arguments Online, hosted by the Royal African Society and the Social Science Research Council. Diaspora Debate will be a forum for exciting, informed and vigorous debate and comment on the issues engaging the African Diaspora

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