Kids Quote by Kemi Badenoch

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

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Dayo Okeniyi

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

— Philomena Kwao

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

— Patrick Cox

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

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

— Emma Weymouth

When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part…

— Nicole Beharie

My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and admired this…

— Suella Braverman

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

— Camila Morrone

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

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