Author: Alexandra Samokhvalova.

African population in Malaysia has been actively growing in the past two decades. A few Africans arrived as construction workers to build the venues for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. A decade later, many more young Africans streamed into the country in pursuit of good-quality and low-priced higher education. According to the Malaysian Immigration Office, more than 27, 000 visas were issued for students from African countries in 2015. The majority of the African students in Malaysia come from Nigeria, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. However, as shown on the tertiary education interactive map of UNESCO, almost all African countries are represented by at least a couple of students.