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President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu was literally a US-migrated Nigerian, studying here for college and then working. Maybe you are not familiar with

President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu was literally a US-migrated Nigerian, studying here for college and then working. Maybe you are not familiar with Nigeria, but a surprisingly large amount of those with legislative power have lived or held property in the US. You don't even have to "migrate" to buy property here, just show up, and you can leave (or do it remotely). Tinubu arrived in the United States in 1975, where he commenced undergraduate studies first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago and then at Chicago State University where he majored in accounting and management. He worked odd jobs as a dishwasher, night security guard and cab driver to support himself through college.[13] He made the honor dean's list as an undergraduate and taught remedial class tutorials, some of his classmates credited his lectures for their improved grades. Tinubu was the university accounting society president in his senior year. His cumulative GPA was 3.54.[13] Tinubu graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1979.[14][15] Early career After graduating, Tinubu worked as an accountant for the American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and GTE Services Corporation.[16][17]

JumpCrisscross 2mo ago
> a surprisingly large amount of those with legislative power have lived or held property in the US Is this an evangelical thing? Or is something else going on?
- mothballed 2mo ago
  It's a thing in all of Africa. Even a bunch of the crazy Liberian warlord guys were US educated. Maybe less so today but anybody with money in Africa used to migrate to the US to study and then come back with the prestige of the credentials.
- bluGill 2mo ago
  Anyone with money in a country with poor education will try to send their kids to a country with good education. That has been mostly the US over the past 100 years, but there are several other countries (most of the EU) that also have great schools that sometimes get them as well. People with money in a poor country tend to be politically powerful, so it is not surprise their get their kids into power.
estearum 2mo ago
Super interesting! Wasn't familiar, though I admit I didn't even think of ruling class Nigerians (which as you point out, the entire world sends their elite children here to be educated), and was thinking more of "actual" immigrants. I think there's a big difference – on virtually very dimension – between royalty/heirs/elites getting sent to Harvard and back home as compared to someone who actually uproots their life in a one-shot chance to create a new home in America. I'm not sure I'd characterize the former as a type of "hypocrisy" though. They're doing exactly what they set out to do, which is to go learn about what works elsewhere in the world and try to apply it back home. Sometimes for evil purposes and sometimes for pro-social ones.

JumpCrisscross 2mo ago

> a surprisingly large amount of those with legislative power have lived or held property in the US Is this an evangelical thing? Or is something else going on?

mothballed 2mo ago
It's a thing in all of Africa. Even a bunch of the crazy Liberian warlord guys were US educated. Maybe less so today but anybody with money in Africa used to migrate to the US to study and then come back with the prestige of the credentials.
bluGill 2mo ago
Anyone with money in a country with poor education will try to send their kids to a country with good education. That has been mostly the US over the past 100 years, but there are several other countries (most of the EU) that also have great schools that sometimes get them as well. People with money in a poor country tend to be politically powerful, so it is not surprise their get their kids into power.

estearum 2mo ago

Super interesting! Wasn't familiar, though I admit I didn't even think of ruling class Nigerians (which as you point out, the entire world sends their elite children here to be educated), and was thinking more of "actual" immigrants. I think there's a big difference – on virtually very dimension – between royalty/heirs/elites getting sent to Harvard and back home as compared to someone who actually uproots their life in a one-shot chance to create a new home in America. I'm not sure I'd characterize the former as a type of "hypocrisy" though. They're doing exactly what they set out to do, which is to go learn about what works elsewhere in the world and try to apply it back home. Sometimes for evil purposes and sometimes for pro-social ones.