”The debate around migration has been very polarized. So in some ways African and European perspectives have been worlds apart. But there is also a lot of common ground, and that’s where we actually want to place the emphasis”. Jesper Bjarnesen, senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) commenting the release of the new book “Worlds Apart? Perspectives on Africa-EU migration”, co-edited with Adeoye Akinola of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) and published by Jacana Media.