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In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal.
- Zazie Beetz
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People are always surprised when they meet me. I was in Nigeria and I went to one of the radio stations and they were like, 'Aww you look cute!' They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: 'Yeah, I'm polite!'
- J Hus
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I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
- Nicole Beharie
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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 a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.
- Chuka Umunna
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We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.
- Goodluck Jonathan
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?
- Goodluck Jonathan
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My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
- Goodluck Jonathan
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I've got Africa stamped on my chest, and I've outlined Nigeria because that's my bloodline.
- Israel Adesanya
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
- Uzo Aduba
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
- Uzo Aduba
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Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
- Goodluck Jonathan
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My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
- David Oyelowo
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How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across West Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram? They have to ask for mercenaries from South Africa? How the mighty has fallen!
- Muhammadu Buhari
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
- Chinua Achebe
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My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
- Donal Logue
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We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.
- Nwankwo Kanu
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Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.
- Nwankwo Kanu
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I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.
- Nwankwo Kanu
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Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
- Muhammadu Buhari
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
- Ibrahim Babangida
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I grew up in northern Nigeria.
- Masai Ujiri
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I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.
- Burna Boy
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.
- Burna Boy
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From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
- Giles Foden
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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 within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.
- Uzodinma Iweala
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My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
- O. T. Fagbenle
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So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.
- Helen Oyeyemi
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I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters.
- Yvonne Orji
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I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.
- Ayobami Adebayo
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Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.
- Rory MacLean
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I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
- Toks Olagundoye
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Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram's violence.
- Richard Grenell
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Boko Haram has pledged its allegiance and support to ISIS. The Northern Nigerian-based Islamic terrorist group wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria and beyond.
- Richard Grenell
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In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn't afford that so you have to pay a viewing centre to watch that.
- Odion Ighalo
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
- Ibrahim Babangida
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If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.
- Yemi Osinbajo
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The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture.
- Yemi Osinbajo
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In Nigeria, my grandma sold everything - everything - for my mum's education.
- Wunmi Mosaku
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My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.
- Annie Ilonzeh
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I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.
- Ayobami Adebayo
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