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Background: Africa is a region of considerable migration, voluntary and compelled, but its virile young population, regional integration initiatives, the increasing engagement of the Diasporas in country-of-origin development and huge remittance flows are positive signs that well managed, migration can be a win-win-win game to migrants as well as origin and destination countries, communities and families.
In the African context, capacity building of officials dealing with migration matters at national and sub-regional levels is critical and urgent. So is the need to train a core of young researchers in collecting up-to-date information on migration that will be factored into the data gathering procedures. The reality is also that very few researchers are engaged in migration studies; these are scattered and do not network.
In June, 1998, a meeting of African migration researchers was held in Gaborone, Botswana, under the auspices of UNESCO with the aim of establishing a network among researchers. Adepoju was charged with the responsibility to identify and invite the researchers, and prepare the meeting and relevant background documents. Twelve researchers participated in the two-day meeting during which the modalities for setting up a "Network on Migration Research in Africa (NOMRA)", its structure and activities were discussed, with Professor Aderanti Adepoju as its coordinator. The defunct network is now being resuscitated; migration matters in the region remain topical, perhaps more than when the idea of NOMRA was floated, and to date, there is no region-wide network of migration researchers.
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