Families Quote by Uzo Aduba

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

— Uzo Aduba

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

— Emma Weymouth

“An estimated one out of every five Africans is a Nigerian.”

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

— Masai Ujiri

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

— 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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what…

— Uzo Aduba

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that…

— Uzodinma Iweala

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 identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

— Toks Olagundoye

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

— Kehinde Wiley