For Enoch Aikins, a political economist who focuses on Africa, the topic of sending money home to relatives is personal.
“I can use myself as an example, as somebody that comes from a typical village with a lot of people or [with] a family that depends on me,” he told DW.
A researcher with the Institute of Security Studies now based in Pretoria, South Africa, Aikins grew up in the small town of Agona Kwanyako, about 70 kilometers (some 43 miles) from the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
