Most African migrants don’t leave Africa. Here’s what that looks like.
On a slice of sandy beach tucked under one of Dakar’s coastal cliffs, Harvest-Spring Kibonge runs a modest, open-air smoothie shop. The crashing waves play a melodic rhythm, and each evening the sunset paints a pink and orange sky over the Senegalese capital.
Though he’s far from home in the Republic of Congo, immigrating to Senegal has worked out for him. In Dakar, he got an education and started a prosperous business – a cookie-cutter immigrant success story.
“I go where the money goes,” he says, a mantra familiar to emigrants the world over.
While Western headlines on African migration often fixate on people entering Europe illegally, Mr. Kibonge is a different sort of African migrant
