Dad Quote by John Boyega

My dad is a minister and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language…

— John Boyega

Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids.

— Kemi Badenoch

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.

— Emma Weymouth

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse…

— Kevin Olusola

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He…

— Kehinde Wiley

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

That's my big goal, to represent for the Nigerians and their parents because they are truly characters. My mom is, for sure.

— Ego Nwodim

My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria.…

— Wunmi Mosaku

My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

— Opal Tometi

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five…

— Chris Abani

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

— Dayo Okeniyi