On Telegraph.co.uk, I’m supportive of how African footballers join foreign clubs, which is good for them and good for their families:

I find that many people are hostile to trade in players because of a wrong-headed belief that somehow upwardly-mobile Africans are the property of the African content.

This argument is also used when talking about African doctors who come to work in the NHS. But rather than treating Africans as chess pieces to be manipulated by social engineers, we should see them sovereign individuals who should be permitted to make their own choices.

Besides, Africans who move out of African probably do more to promote prosperity in Africa than if they were to stay back home.

Money sent by ex-pat Africans back their families is greater than wealthy governments send in foreign aid.