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...same time, the Nigerian government sponsored scholarships to students to study abroad in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, according to Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07, a second-year Ph.D. student in the African Studies department. One consequence of this program was that most current undergraduates with a connection to the country are Nigerian-American; Ogunnaike’s own father attended the University of Wisconsin on a scholarship provided by the Nigerian government...
John Yusufu ’12, who hails from northern Nigeria, said that though he shares much with his Nigerian-American friends, their aspirations are ultimately different. “In the end, my main goal is to go back to Nigeria,” he said...
...while most Nigerian-American students are not interested in moving to Nigeria, Ogunnaike said, Nigerian representation at Harvard is strong enough that undergraduates formed the Nigerian Students Association less than a decade...
Okurounmu said that the NSA creates a space for celebration of culture, film, and food native to Nigeria—which is especially relevant in light of the increasing number of Nigerian-Americans who are straddling multiple identities. “They might identify first and foremost as black, and then as Nigerian,” Ogunnaike said...
While Harvard itself has wound down most official ties with Nigeria over the years—Olupona points out that the University is no longer as involved in recruiting Nigerian nationals and encouraging its own students to study there—these students have taken it upon themselves to maintain the connection forged 50 years...