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Friday, July 6, 2012

BLACK AFRICAN MIGRATION TO THE U.S. INCREASES

BLACK AFRICAN MIGRATION TO THE U.S. INCREASES

 
Dr. LEONARD MADU and Mr. REGINALD PIERRE

Black African migration to the United States is on the increase.though currently small in number, Black Africans are amongst the fastest growing populations in the United States. In 1980, the total of Black foreign born population was 816, 000, only 64, 000 of whom were born in Africa.

 In 2000, there were 574,000 Black african immigrants. By 2009, the total Black immigrant population had quadrupuled to 3.3 million, while the African Black immigrant population had risen to 1.1 million. Also by 2009, there were about 1.7 million Black immigrants from the Caribbean, but Caribbean immigration has slowed down in recent years. between 2000 and 2009, the Black African immigrant population grew by 92 percent, while those from the Caribbean grew by 19 percent.


In 2010, according to World Bank estimates, the United States was the destination of an estimated 4 percent of all African immigrants, ranking it fifth behind France, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Saudi Arabia-and just ahead of Britain, Spain and Italy. However, France and Saudi Arabia primarily receive Arab immigrants from North Africa, while nearly 3/4 of imiigrants to the United States are from Black Africa.

Historically, Black African immigrants have had their origins in West Africa and in Anglophone countries. In 2009, the Anglophone countries of Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Cameroon and Sierra leone together account for 46 percent of all Black African immigrants, whereas in 1980, they had accounted for 62 percent. In 1980, Nigeria alone accounted for 37 percent of all Black African immigrants. By 2009, Nigeria's share has fallen to 19 percent.

Black African immigrants are amongst the best educated  U.S. immigrants, but amongst the lowest paid. According to the World Bank's  data, the United States benefits disproportionately from high skilled African immigrants. In 2000, the United States accounted for 37 percent of African skilled immigrants, but only 15 percent to the OECD Countries. By contrast, the  United Kingdom, France and other European countries were destinations for a greater share of low skilled African immigrants.

Currently, Nigeria has the largest number of Black African immigrants in the United States followed by Ethiopia and Ghana.

Here is a list of Black African immigrants by country of origin.
Nigeria-201,000
Ethiopia-143,000
Ghana-110,000
Kenya-88,000
Somalia-67,000
Liberia-64,000
South Sudan-34,000
Sierra Leone-34,000
Cameroon-30,000
Cape Verde-22,000
Eritrea-22,000
Senegal-16,000
Uganda-14,000
South africa-11,000
Guinea-11,000
Zimbabwe-11,000
Tanzania-10,000
Egypt-7,000
Morocco-5,000
Other West Africa-52,000
Other East Africa-22,000
Other African countries-127,000

Rev Okotie impregnated me, abandoned our daughter and I – Aderemi Odutola






My name is Aderemi Odutola, a granddaughter of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu-Ode. I met Rev Chris Okotie in 1997. I was a young Pastor desperately looking for a good church where I could worship and God led me to the Household Of God. Then, I had a music ministry, and because he was an ace musician, I took him as my mentor and strongly believed that he would help me one day. Along the line, something happened. We started seeing each other.

I’ve done abortion for him three times before I decided to leave the last one.

I left the pregnancy because he proposed to marry me. Initially, I didn’t accept his proposal because of his wife, Tina. I couldn’t have married a married man. But he told me that his marriage to Tina was on the brink of collapse.

Immediately I became pregnant, he started behaving funny, unlike the amiable Pastor I met sometime back. Sometimes I would call him but he would neither pick nor return my call.

It dawned on me when I gave birth to our daughter that he was just a player. Since the birth of Tioluwani Okotie (our daughter), Chris has abandoned us in my family house in Opebi.

And it has not been easy at all taking care of our daughter all alone.

Whenever I call to let him know his daughter needs something, he would dribble me and make up excuses as to why he wouldn’t help out.

I was highly disappointed when I heard he eventually married Stephanie Henshaw, his late friend’s wife.


Culled from Kanayo.com