Commentary

When President Yoweri Museveni went on air to emphatically caution Ugandans on the recent Ebola outbreak, it underlined the defencelessness, not only of the Ugandans, but of the regional and global citizen for lack of available drug or vaccine against the virus.

When history repeats itself, it is rarely gentle. Today, as in the era of colonialism, tens of thousands of ambitious young people from Europe’s periphery are escaping the old continent in search of better opportunities in America, Africa, and Asia.