Sometime in November last year, I received a call from a BBC journalist who wanted to know my opinion about a fairly controversial statement made by the German African Commissioner, Gunter Nooke.
The “no-chills-nor-frills” Mr Nooke had expressed his views, later cited in the BBC article titled Can Voluntary Colonialism Stop Migration from Africa to Europe, on how to stem migration to Europe by suggesting that the European Union or a body like the World Bank should build and run cities in Africa in order to boost job creation and development on the continent.
