Word: nigerianism
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Conversely, it seems that countries often show a dramatic drop in their birthrate not because of prosperity but because of a decrease in people's sense of well-being. For instance, a study of Nigerian communities revealed that bad economic times in recent years caused young Yoruba families to turn to contraception even though infant mortality was rising -- a development that directly contradicts conventional wisdom about the demographic transition...
Hold the Ribs: Ever the thoughtful hosts, organizers of the games in Dallas have located a West African grocer who has promised to provide hotel room service for the Nigerian team...
...appalled that the U.S. Immigration Service sought to deport a Nigerian woman, Lydia Oluloro, to a country where she would not be able to protect her young daughters from a "tradition" requiring part of the children's genitalia to be sliced away ((LAW, March 21)). The U.S. government and the United Nations should mount a worldwide campaign against every form of culturally sanctioned violence involving women and girls, including genital mutilation, forced prostitution and ritual starvation, all of which are practiced by countries that receive huge amounts of aid. At the same time, we must begin to take gender violence...
...Nigerian American with daughters, I find Lydia Oluloro's assertion that deportation to Nigeria would have resulted in the inevitable circumcision of her daughters absolutely ridiculous. In Africa, the individual's wish with regard to matters affecting his or her immediate family is still supreme and is always respected, regardless of cultural and traditional pressures. Oluloro, as the mother and guardian of her children, would still have been the person to make the final decision concerning their welfare...
...West Coast, a federal immigration judge dropped deportation proceedings against a Nigerian woman illegally in the U.S. in order to spare her two small daughters from an African ritual of genital mutilation. The judge called the procedure "cruel, painful and dangerous." And immigration officials granted asylum to a gay man from Mexico based on his claim of persecution back home for his sexual orientation...