The AAU held the COREVIP in Tripoli, Libya, under the theme: African Brain Drain Managing the Drain: Working with the Diaspora. The conference through the various speeches and papers presented by researchers and scholars brought to the fore the need for a shift away from the blame-game which has characterised the brain drain debate for many years to a more constructive engagement with the African Diaspora, as a means for African higher educational institutions to tap this African intellectual resource.