The Antigua gambit goes bust: The mobility shortcut that African nomads just lost

Antigua and Barbuda, the twin-island Caribbean state with 98,000 people, occupied a strategic position in the global mobility market for years. It was neither a financial centre nor a major migration destination. Yet it played a crucial role in how capital, talent, and ambition from the Global South navigated the world’s most restrictive borders.

The country’s citizenship-by-investment…