THE CAPITALIST NIGER
this country has found out, is a land of opportunities. You can become whatever it is you want to be. But
we, the continental African group have let the success which others have attained pass us by.
“Yes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the African immigrant group is the most educated immigrant
group in the United States – it means more educated than the Japanese, the Chinese, the Koreans, the
Indians, or even the Euorpeans. It means we possess more first degrees (B.A., B.Sc. or
Bachelors whatever) and subsequent degrees than any other group. It means we have within the African
immigrant group individuals with more professional degrees – medical doctors, engineers, economists,
scientists and others in various fields. But the question is what has our being the most educated
immigrant group done for us or for our people. Well, to say the least and to be really magnanimous, the
answer is absolute nothing.