The African Immigrants in US

43,8% percent of africans americans had achieved a college degree... that's a massive percentage, more than any kind of group in the us, more than asians americans europer imigrants russians and canda shaking the usual sterotype that Asians are the "model minority" with only 42,5%... It's after the colinial wars and the creation of independent nations in sub saharan africa that we could assist to massive imigration flows.. most of them went to europe but there's some who went to the us. of course asians and whites african immigrate to the us but they were far outnumbered by the black african immigration.
One of the main tools of the us goverment was the diversity progan visa, the objective of this program was to admit immigrants from countries were us isn't well represented indeed those born in any territory that has sent more than 50 000 immigrants to the us in the previous 5 years are not eligible to receive diversity visa. one fifth of african legal immigrants entered with diversity visas, well the author, mary kent, did'nt expalin in the article what exactly a diversity visa is diversity immigrant visa is a us lottery program for receiveing a us permanent resident card, it's also know as the green card lottery.. for example in 2010 52,63% of the winners came from Africa. these diversity immigrants tend to be with high academic level and higly skilled, indeed, 38% of those newcomers have a college degree which is, as the author describe it, "remarkable", but several of them will find a job for which they are overqualified and underpaid.

Many go to higher education institutions in order to enter the country with student visas. they're tuition are welcomed and, after having graduated, many of them manage to find an employer who will sponsor them to stay in U.S. with permanent visa.

More than 17 000 africans enrolled in each year during the 90's, since 2001 at least 30 000 african students enrolled higher education