I think there's also the self-selection filter. If you understand that America is the great satan and the CIA is the largest impediment to progress on the face of this planet, you're probably not going to try to emigrate to America or the UK. If, however, you lack that perspective, why not go enjoy the colonial spoils in the rotting heart of empire?
Alternatively, the way to get from Africa to the US is by participating in the colonial spoils system at higher and higher levels. So folks who cross the Atlantic today are both heavily invested in the corrupt status quo and riding across on the rat-lines that Westerners laid out to evacuate their stogies when things go south.
I think there's also the self-selection filter. If you understand that America is the great satan and the CIA is the largest impediment to progress on the face of this planet, you're probably not going to try to emigrate to America or the UK. If, however, you lack that perspective, why not go enjoy the colonial spoils in the rotting heart of empire?
Alternatively, the way to get from Africa to the US is by participating in the colonial spoils system at higher and higher levels. So folks who cross the Atlantic today are both heavily invested in the corrupt status quo and riding across on the rat-lines that Westerners laid out to evacuate their stogies when things go south.