ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the role that globalization plays in the migration of Africans to Libya by examining the factors responsible for the mass movement of Black Africans out of their domain to Europe through Libya. The push factors are identified to include war/political instability, economic hardship, substandard education system, love for western culture and civilisation which plague south Sahara Africa. The pull factors include Libya’s initial lack of adequate labour force, Gaddaffi’s open-door policy and Libya’s geographical location which serves as the trans-continental doorway for African migrants to Europe. The inhumane derogatory conditions that the Black migrants are subjected to in Libya including their legal facelessness, sexual exploitation, forced labour and so on. The chapter explores how the whole process in the globalisation/migration web relates to loss of potential human power through brain drain, death and the implications of these on the socio-economic status of sub-Saharan Africa.
