THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON AFRICAN MIGRATION: A PHILOSOPHICAL INSIGHT

Abstract

Migration has been and is still a major issue or challenge facing African nations. It has been on the increase as majority of the African youths migrate to Europe, Asia, America and the likes in search of greener pasture. This is owing to increasing rate of poverty in African continent, which is caused by bad leadership, corruption and among others. A memorable experience of Corona virus pandemic, with the code name, COVID 19 and its impacts was the greatest menace encountered by man in the last days of the year 2019, through 2020 and 2021, and this paralyzed so many sectors in the worlds’ economy. Migration is one of the sectors affected badly as not only were there total lockdown in aviation sector, thereby creating no room for local or international flights and there was interstate lockdown preventing interstate travels. And with the restriction of movement and total lockdown within the states, migration was not possible. Now, with the employment of analytic method of philosophical inquiry towards the two concepts, we discovered that the dangers of migration notwithstanding, it has really contributed much to the development of African nations. Again, apart from the woes of COVID 19 pandemic which was stated daily in our media within the above period in question, the pandemic has really prevented our youths from unnecessary migration and from dangers of human trafficking, racial discrimination, exploitation, dehumanization and brain drain.