Nigeria Might Be The Leading Source Of Black Canadians

Being essentially the most populous African nation, Nigeria is a well known nation and has earned the moniker, Large of Africa, despite the fact that present evaluation when it comes to financial stability and safety would belie that epithet.

For younger Nigerians, when requested what the Nigerian dream is, their reply is at all times a variant of the identical phrase – to go away. To depart the nation of their beginning and go someplace higher, someplace they’ll reside their lives freely, to go someplace sane the place issues work. And whenever you ask the older Nigerians, they are saying they need their youngsters to go some place else as a result of they’re far too established and entrenched to simply go away. For lots of Nigerians, Canada is that place, it’s that place the place issues work, it’s that utopia the place goals come true so long as you’re employed for it, and Nigerians are working arduous to realize that dream.

As of the final Canadian census in 2016, there have been 51,800 Nigerians in Canada, and though the results of the 2021 concluded census has not but been launched, that quantity is extra prone to have doubled contemplating 12,595 Nigerians relocated to Canada within the yr 2019 alone. Some folks believed this spike in immigration figures was not coincidental contemplating 2019 marked the start of the second tenure of Nigeria’s authorities.

So many elements have contributed enormously to the heightened urge of the typical Nigerian emigrate to saner climes and why nations like Canada now have Nigerians because the dominant a part of their African populace. Will Nigerians proceed to to migrate? Sure. Will they proceed to decide on Canada? More than likely.

Presently, Nigeria is the main supply of everlasting residents in Canada and the main supply of African immigrants. These residents have testified to a neater and extra rewarding life to their household and associates and have stoked the embers of the “Nigerian dream” in them. Moreover, these residents have more and more begun to make use of their social media pages to information prepared emigrants and to indicate them all the pieces they would wish to outlive of their new nation for little or no payment. Nearly each YouTube consumer has opened a video and encountered an advert beginning with “Do you wish to transfer completely to Canada? Or “The best methods to maneuver to Canada.” As annoying as these movies could also be, they’re very essential to the Nigerian beginning her emigration journey since they normally include hacks that make the method much less cumbersome.

These movies additional streamline the imaginative and prescient of the younger Nigerian who is aware of he needs to go away the nation however doesn’t have a spot or perhaps a timeline but, it brings the thought to the forefront of his thoughts and provides one thing else—out of the blue, it’s not simply “I want to go away this nation.” It’s “I want to go away this nation and go to a spot like Canada”.

One other issue that’s essential to the ever-increasing variety of Canada-bound emigrants is the truth that there are such a lot of notable Nigerians which have made a reputation for themselves in several fields. With names like Stella Umeh the famed gymnast and Olympic medallist, Daniel Igali; journalist Ken Saro-Wiwa jr; Dax, the rapper; and Samuel Oghale Oboh who was the primary black president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, it goes with out saying that Canada is the place the place Nigerian emigrants can attain their full potential. They will proceed up the ladder and be rewarded appropriately contemplating they’re environment friendly with out the drapes of nepotism, favouritism and corruption hanging over them. It’s a place the place issues work and legal guidelines are enforced.

As Nigeria continues to arrange for its subsequent presidential election, one factor is definite, no matter if the nation is ready to flip round for the higher after the forthcoming elections or if all stays the identical, Canada will proceed to achieve Nigerian emigrants, and in about 10 years, Nigeria stands out as the main supply of black Canadians thereby overtaking Jamaica.