Africa’s ’Scramble for Europe’: Stephen Smith

Highlights from Dr. Stephen Smith’s talk at the John Hope Franklin Center as part of our weekly Wednesdays at the Center series. Migratory pressure between Africa and Europe will soon reach a crescendo. Today, 510 million people live inside EU borders and billion people in Africa. The Europeans are rapidly aging, whereas 40 percent of the Africans are under 15. By 2050, 450 million Europeans will face 2.5 billion Africans, five times the European population. The ’Scramble for Europe’ will become as