1MIGRATION OF HUMANS OUT OF AFRICA As opined byBertocchi (2016),the migration of people from the continent of Africa is an ongoing process and its earliest roots can be traced back to the ancient times when the Africans used to migrate out of the continent for trade purposes and also for better opportunities. However,Pagani et al. (2015)are of the viewpoint that the large process of migration started in the 15thcentury to compensate for the labor requirements in UK and also the New World which was created in Africa. More importantly, as per a statistics 3% of the entire population of Africa were forced to migrate between the years 1450 and 1600 whereas by the end of the 17thcentury the percentage became more than 16% of the entire population (Exenberger, 2016). The majority of the African slaves who were exported out of Africa during the slave trade age were abducted from western and central Africa and also from the other parts of the nation which were closer to the sea shore (Bertocchi, 2016). Furthermore, the majority of these individuals were either transported to England or to the USA were they worked as slaves on the farms, industries and homes of the native people (Exenberger, 2016). As a matter of fact, during this time more than 12 million Africans were forcefully exported out of the nation of Africa to work as slaves in the UK and USA (Pagani et al., 2015). However, in the recent times it is seen that the Africans are migrating to various first world nations like UK, USA, Canada, France and others in search of better kind of growth and development opportunities (Bertocchi, 2016).
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