Nigeria Quote by Malcolm X

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

— Malcolm X

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.

— Ayobami Adebayo

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

— Masai Ujiri

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

— Kemi Badenoch

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

— Patrick Cox

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers.…

— Yvonne Orji

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

I fell in love with Africa while I was there.

— Renee O'Connor

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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