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The Nigerian economy is a huge one.
Yemi Osinbajo
Economy
Huge
Nigerian
I say all the time that when you first meet me, you know three things right off the bat: I'm Nigerian, I love to laugh, and I love Jesus.
Yvonne Orji
Love
Time
Me
You
Three
First
Bat
Meet
Say
Laugh
Know
Off
Right
Things
Jesus
Nigerian
I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.'
Yvonne Orji
You
Parents
Ma
Say
Immigrant
Would
Like
Comedian
Accents
Court
African
Want
Nigerian
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. We're your child's best friend. All of the above.
Yvonne Orji
Best
Seen
Doctors
Met
Everyone
Best Friend
Above
Lawyers
Because
Leave
Friend
Child
America
Your
Nigeria
Here
Nigerian
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.
Uzodinma Iweala
Country
Reading
Sweet
Indeed
Dream
Magical
Writers
Feels
Like
Times
Landscapes
Search
Nigerian
Ben
From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.
Kevin Olusola
Me
You
People
Situation
Think
Heritage
Caribbean
See
Know
Look
Yale
Without
Person
American
Getting
May
African
African-American
Certain
Thing
Nigerian
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 it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
Uzo Aduba
Family
Only
Small
Feels
New
Town
Like
Massachusetts
New England
Understand
Up
Very
Grew
Regard
Suburban
England
Nigerian
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 war in the late 1960s.
Uzo Aduba
War
Genocide
I Am
Mother
Daughter
Country
Late
Immigrants
Civil
Civil War
Both
1960s
Polio
Am
Survivor
Her
Nigerian
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