Oxford Business Forum Africa

African business students and entrepreneurs gathered at the Said Business School in Oxford to discuss the continent’s brain drain. At the business forum, South Africa’s former finance minister Trevor Manuel urged young people to seize opportunities in their home countries. With advanced international work experience, the students also want to be able to go back home with opportunities. PhD student Vuyane Mhlomi from South Africa said, “We’ve got this brain drain, right, where the guys that are meant to be helping us deal with the rand that’s plummeting, and who are meant to be shaping South Africa’s future. Every time we talk about our continent, we talk about a continent that is regressing not because it was doomed but probably because all the talent is somewhere in Europe or somewhere in the US.”