Because Quote by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side.…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

— Nnamdi Asomugha

In Nigeria, my grandma sold everything - everything - for my mum's education.

— Wunmi Mosaku

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

— Patrick Cox

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

— Kemi Badenoch

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

— Masai Ujiri

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

— Craig T. Nelson

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of…

— Chuka Umunna

“Not only were the Ibos a poorer group from a less fertile region of Nigeria," those who migrated to the northern region were treated…

— Thomas Sowell

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what…

— Chris Abani

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil…

— Uzo Aduba