Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material / R. Patterson -- Introduction / Rubin Patterson -- 1. Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- 2. Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in Francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gérard Tchouassi -- 3. Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- 4. On the brain drain of africans to America: Some Methodological observations / F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo , Baffour K. Takyi and Jesse R. Mann -- 5. Cyberorganizing United States constituencies for Africa / Jill M. Humphries -- 6. Biodiversity management: A current trace of the african diaspora / Paulo Moreno-Zapata -- 7. Building the new african eco-industrial economy: Circulating brains and recycling materials / Rubin Patterson -- 8. Brain drain and its impact on Ethiopia’s higher learning institutions:Medical establishments and the military academies between 1970s and2000 / Solomon A. Getahun -- Index / R. Patterson.

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In this book, discussions on African brain circulation and transnational society provide new insights and point to fertile research and policy agendas. Today, a globally important dilemma concerns citizens who either depart from their homeland to enhance their life chances in a rich society - but possibly contribute to a brain drain for their homeland - or stay home and work - but possibly contribute to a brain waste since conditions at home will not allow them to contribute commensurately with their capability. Increasingly, scholars on the subject of global South-to-West emigrants argue that it is not just a possibility of a brain drain occurring when citizens emigrate or brain waste occurring when they stay home, but rather a brain gain when they emigrate strategically and contribute to development in the homeland.