When Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi proposed a borderless United States of Africa several years ago, Kofi Bafoo in Ghana answered his call. Like hundreds of thousands of other young men living in the impoverished countries along the Sahara’s southern fringe, Mr. Bafoo left for this oil-rich promised land with hopes of building a new life on the Mediterranean coast. It did not work out that way. Few of the estimated one million Africans who flooded into Libya found jobs in the country’s feeble economy, so Mr. Bafoo and thousands of other young African men set their sights on European shores. Libya, it seems, was happy to let them go.Full Story
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