USA Africa Dialogue Series - Is Back to Africa no longer a good/fashionable idea?

Once upon a time we had Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement.

Today much of Garvey is still very relevant and that's why everybody
is still quoting him.....
" Marcus dey tell we sey...." It's time for do-ing - "a man or words
and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds"

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=27&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=The+Back+to+Africa+Movement&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=The+Back+to+Africa+Movement&aq=0&aqi=g1g-v3&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=ea1e5ea7809c2dcb&biw=1024&bih=626

Since its heyday at the time of The Black Star Line, this movement has
lost it's momentum.

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=The+BLack+STar+LIne&pbx=1&oq=The+BLack+STar+LIne&aq=f&aqi=g2g-v2&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=925243l930400l3l930664l19l15l1l2l2l1l379l2436l5.7.1.2l18l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=ea1e5ea7809c2dcb&biw=1024&bih=626

Yet, some of the most vociferous noises are to be heard coming from
the brain drain Diaspora – and that's the paradox even among those who
teach their own not so radical personal versions/ interpretations of
pan-African ideologies as the essence of political science as it
applies to Africa: For better or for worse they continue to sit there
in their new-found ivory towers in the first world lands of milk and
honey, such as the United States of America and Canada and fully
conscious, from there they complain incessantly (of course ) – with a
clear or a bad conscience - sometimes even profess and pontificate
about the backwardness in Africa -some shout about the rule of law,
the fundamentals of democracy, freedom, Justice, a free press, non-
violence, peace, human rights even as they praise e.g. African
strongman Muammar Gaddafi and cherish his memory.

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=Gaddafi&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=ea1e5ea7809c2dcb&biw=1024&bih=626&pf=p&pdl=500

This is the situation today: For a multitude of reasons, there are
more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago, US than there are back home in
Ethiopia and it's the same story when it comes to other African
countries and their home or foreign-trained doctors, nurses,
engineers, economists, scientists, teachers – that many of them have
found greener pastures developing other societies abroad whilst their
Africa continues to suffer.

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=49&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=More+Ethiopian+doctors+in+the+US+than+in+Ethiopia&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=More+Ethiopian+doctors+in+the+US+than+in+Ethiopia&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=ea1e5ea7809c2dcb&biw=1024&bih=626

We know that if (to dream the impossible dream) all the qualified
Nigerian manpower were to return to Nigeria overnight, the country
would surge forward, even be transformed to the kind of Nigeria we
would all like to see within the first term of President Goodluck
Jonathan's presidency. Yet African governments either individually or
collectively do not seem to be doing much to attract or entice the
lost African sheep to return home.

This is just one more suggestion about how to reverse the brain drain.
And it's surely not merely being idealistic. It's simple but
feasible. Since Africa as a whole continues to suffer from a lack of
qualified man power, wouldn't it be encouraging if the AU sets up a
resettlement fund for this purpose and extend an official invitation
to the Africans in the diaspora (including African Americans,
Canadians, Black Brits etc.) to return to Africa to help build the
continent? To help build a country like the Republic of South Sudan?

I'm sure that even if the émigrés are reluctant to return home (for
this and that reason) a good number of those born in the diaspora
would like to actualise that dream of serving mankind in Africa....

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