Kansas City College Educational Journal

Many problems confront Africa; yet, a large amount of the solutions to the myriad of problems facing it depends on the determination of the Africans. As man-made conflicts - economic, political, ethnoreligious, environmental - and cases of natural disasters continue to go on unabated; the rising numbers of refugees and other displaced persons in the continent remain alarming. While a lot of scholarly attention has been paid to the problems of refugees, little is known about the crisis situation; thus, the need to do an empirical survey of the transformation of the problems of refugees into a crisis and its implication to the African continent - this is the intent of this paper. The paper answers questions as to the factors responsible for the crisis situation of the refugee phenomenon in Africa, while making policy recommendations.

Keywords: Africa, Crises, Development, Governance, Refugees