According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), about 8.4 million migrants, representing 2.8 per cent of the total population, move around West Africa.

This is the largest total migrant stock in Africa, and it moves internally, intra-regionally, continentally and internationally.
West Africa also concentrates the highest number of intra-regional migrants and, to a lesser extent, migrants moving towards Northern Africa and Europe.

There are more to about migration during this, but before we continue, let’s listen to a testimony by Abdullahi Rasheed – a Migrant returnee from Ondo State, southeast Nigeria who sold everything he owned from his motorbike business to pursue an employment opportunity in Dubai – the United Arab Emirate.