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01/09/2006:

"Africa Spends Us$4bn a Year On Western Expatriates"

Africa spends US$4 billion per year, representing 35% of total official development aid to the continent, to employ some 100,000 Western experts.

These are recruited to perform functions generically described as 'technical assistance', which could have been done by African experts lost to the brain drain of the western world.

This revelation was made by the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Kwasi Andam, yesterday at the 57th Annual New Year School, under the theme 'Developing the Human Resource for Accelerated National Development'.

Speaking under the topic 'Science and Technology for development', the Vice Chancellor said Africa has lost about a third of her human capital and the three African countries, which have suffered most from the brain drain syndrome, are Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ghana.
allafrica.com