The second generation of UK Africans is a well-educated population with huge expertise and diverse skills, eare xposed to global trends and best practices, and embrace modernisation. They are a huge Africa should tap into for development

Re-connecting with the continent, meeting long distant relatives and friends are ways of supporting Africa. But crucial to all this, and central to the theme, is the need for personal development and entrepreneurship

As emerging transnational stakeholders or co-development actors, the diaspora holds the key to sustainable peace and advancement of North Africa following the ‘Arab Spring.’

Beyond chanting mantras and slogans, the devil seems to lie in the details. How does the AU-diaspora engagement take place and in what form? Who actually are the diaspora and who represents them?

An abridged version of the final text submitted by the diaspora platform to the European EC Public Consultation ‘Towards a post-2015 development framework’. Drafted by Onyekachi Wambu on behalf of diaspora organisations