Language specific mobility difference in Sub-Saharan Africa

International migration from Sub-Saharan Africas (SSA) is increasing in number and stable at around 10% of the total global international migrants during the period from 1990 to 2010. When differentiated by language group, it is revealed that English-speaking SSA migrants are more prone to go outside of SSA and to Anglophone countries such as USA or UK, whereas French-speaking SSA migrants move mostly within SSA and those who go beyond the continent move basically to Francophone countries such as France. The domestic (internal) mobility in SSA does not show language-specific difference on the country level, but the provincial level analysis reveals that English-speaking capital areas are more mobile than French-speaking capital areas. There is indeed a cultural, linguistic push and pull relationship in terms of international migration and also one can assume that the strong pull from Anglophone developed countries had caused the high mobility in the English-speaking capital areas of SSA. This hypothesis suggests that the international migration is induced not only by economic pull but also on cultural bonds, and the global movement interacts with domestic mobility.