My Nigerian American Heritage
I am Nigerian American from the beautiful city of Washington D.C, United States and the great state of Enugu in Nigeria. I feel blessed to call both great countries my home.
I grew up in Washington D.C and learned a lot about the government and how it worked. In school we wrote long essays about our leaders and even wrote letters to the elected officials in government. I remember writing to Mr. Andrew Young who was a Democrat congressman at the time but was later appointed the United States Ambassador to the United Nations by President Jimmy Carter. He replied my letter and I thought that was pretty cool! I absolutely loved it! Who knows maybe I’ll meet him one day and tell him.
In the late seventies we traveled to Nigeria and it was totally and utterly different to anything I had ever experienced. I found that Nigeria was (and still is) a beautiful country with abundant natural resources especially in petroleum and natural gas. Back then Nigeria was a country that had 19 states and the population was roughly around 80 million people. Today Nigeria has 36 states with a population of over 209 million people making it the most populous country in Africa.
