3 Tweets 6 reads Aug 28, 2022
In the 80s/90s, most middle-class Nigerian parents had 2 goals: good education for the kids and build a house(s)
Fast forward to the 2020s, many of those kids are scattered all over the world and the houses are quiet. The kids canโ€™t just โ€˜drop by, on my way to churchโ€™
Now grandparents, they travel thousands of miles just to see their descendants, in a land of strangers.
As they grow yet older, they will depend on the children of others to physically care for them.
They know they are probably the โ€˜last of their namesโ€™ to live in those houses
When you think of the cost of bad governance in Nigeria, think of all the family-lines that have been changed / disrupted in just one generation.
Grandparents: Nigerian
Children: Nigerian-Canadian
Grandchildren: Canadian
That is the new Nigerian dream.

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