AGBO JEDI JEDI is a Nigerian herbal preparation that claims to treat just about anything from back pain and haemorrhoids to impotence, for a bargain £4 ($6). It is on sale in the shops of south London’s “little Lagos”, in Peckham, along with many other Nigerian products including yam, pepper soup, paw-paw and spicy jollof rice. This area has the largest concentration of Nigerians in Britain. But just as there are question marks over how many Nigerians live in Nigeria, nobody is sure about the number living abroad. Some Nigerians like to claim a diaspora some 17m strong, which would suggest that about one in ten Nigerians lives overseas, but that is surely fanciful.
Yet official statistics probably greatly underestimate the size of the diaspora, since they are not likely to include illegal immigrants. What is certain, though, is that the number of Nigerians living abroad has increased rapidly in recent decades. Census figures in Britain show that the number of British residents born in Nigeria more than doubled in the decade to 2011, to 191,000, making this the immigrant population with the second-fastest growth, after Poles. A...
from The Economist: Special report http://ift.tt/1H150N1
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