May 2025

By Annabel Bonney If you’ve been wondering “how many people visited Lagos from diaspora for Detty December last year,” the answer might surprise you: around 495,000. This estimate, backed by MO Africa in partnership with Lagos State agencies, suggests that 90% of the 550,000 inbound air passengers during December 2024 were Nigerians returning home from […]

By Annabel Bonney If you’re asking “how many diasporeans have visited Ghana in the last 10 years for Year of Return,” the reality is this: there’s no precise, universally agreed number—but we do have a strong estimate for 2019 and a wider trend for 2020–2025. The Year of Return: A Defining Moment Launched in 2019,

By Annabel Bonney Africa has long been a victim of lazy storytelling and whitewashing.  Poverty, insurgency, insecurity, disease outbreaks, corruption—those are the narratives that dominate the global media when it comes to our continent. Nigeria, in particular, has taken more than its fair share of blows. But there is one underrated force that can flip