• I dream of the day when these, the African mathematicians and computer specialists in Washington and New York, the African physicists, engineers, doctors, business managers and economists, will return from London and Manchester and Paris and Brussels to add to the African pool of brain power, to enquire into and find solutions to Africa's problems and challenges, to open the African door to the world of knowledge, to elevate Africa's place within the universe of research the information of new knowledge, education and information -Thambo Mbeki, former South African President
  • They therefore concluded that “the findings of this (and other) surveys indicate that coverage of Africa, by the leading sources of American media is, at best, dismissive of the continent’s progress and potential, and thus leading to continued ‘exotification’ and marginalization of the African continent. At worst, coverage disregards recent trends toward democratization, thus betraying an almost contemptuous lack of interest in the potential and progress being achieved on the continent.”

Above excerpt is from a writer: Gbemisola Olujobi

  • By Gbemisola Olujobi - The Africa You Need to Know - Posted on Nov 28, 2006 See Full Article above

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Reason I'm a die hard African returnee...

Check this out.....


It is important that brain drain, brain waste and reverse brain drain be incorporated while an African is considering migrating to the United States.


According to the United Nations, an African professional working in the United States contributes about $150,000 per year to the U.S. economy. What few realize is that Africans who immigrate to the United States contribute 40 times more wealth to the American than to the African economy. On a relative scale, that means for every $300 per month a professional African sends home, that person contributes $12,000 per month to the U.S. economy (Emeagwali, 2003).

Philip Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which has been called "supercomputing's Nobel Prize," for inventing a formula that allows computers to perform their fastest computations - a discovery that inspired the reinvention of supercomputers. He was extolled by then U.S. President Bill Clinton as "one of the great minds of the Information Age" and described by CNN as "a Father of the Internet;" he is the most searched-for scientist on the Internet.
[Principia College (prin.edu), Elsah, Illinois, October 24, 2003


By the way, I found above info while doing my Research Paper in College - The Impact of Reverse Brain.
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