Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nigerian Steps Aside...
THERE ONCE WAS A NIGERIAN DREAM almost like the American Dream, and Dapo and Bola Thomas shared it. They had a bounding faith in the future of Africa's most populous, proud and pugnacious country. They believed that by earning university degrees, finding good jobs and working hard, they would live better than their parents had, and their own children would do better still...
...fleshpots of the West. In Nepal's Himalayan hill villages, some 7,000 adolescents are sold each year to slave traders for the sweat-drenched brothels of Bombay. In Brazil an estimated 25,000 girls have been forced into prostitution in remote Amazon mining camps. In Italy, Nigerian streetwalkers are flooding into Bologna, while in Belgium, the neon-bright windows of Antwerp's red-light district are filled with Ghanaians in lacy underwear. Around Miami, massage parlors owned by Cuban immigrants import prostitutes from Colombia, Nicaragua and Canada...
...Nobel prize-winning Nigerian writer Oluwole A. Soyinka...
Soyinka is a Nigerian dramatist, novelist and poet who became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature...