Every year, 45 percent of university-bound students from France's overseas territories leave their island to pursue higher education. From Réunion to Guadeloupe, brain drain keeps growing, driven by a lack of opportunity. Nowhere is this more acute than in Martinique, which is on track to become France's oldest department within 25 years.
The sun sets over the beach of Schoelcher, a small town on the outskirts of Fort-de-France, in Martinique. The sky shifts through shades of mauve and orange as a group of teenagers plays on the basketball court, Caribbean music thumping from a portable speaker.
