Ghana Must Go! Sad Story of Why Nigeria Expelled 1 Million Ghanaians
On 17 January 1983, Nigeria’s President Shehu Shagari issued an executive order that expelled two million undocumented West African migrants. About 1 million of them were from Ghana… These West African immigrants had been attracted to Nigeria because of the 1970s oil boom, but by 1983 the economy had weakened, and it was an election year.
The Nigerian politicians hoped the expulsion would prove popular. Across Nigeria, up to two million migrants heard the warnings of arrest, prosecution and forced deportation if they didn’t comply.
Shagari’s policy strained relationships between the two countries and it took years for mutual respect to be reinstalled…………
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Sources:
https://atavist.mg.co.za/ghana-must-go-the-ugly-history-of-africas-most-famous-bag/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/08/14/ghana-must-go-containing-the-mayhem-of-migration/
Nigeria Under Shagari Author(s): Jon Kraus
Responses to the 1983 Expulsion of Aliens from, Nigeria: A Critique
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ghana-must-go-how-love-lost-between-two-neighbours-birthed-hammed/
https://medium.com/the-original-impostor/where-does-ghana-must-go-come-from-a2df3d40076e
Nigeria-Ghana Relations from 1960 to 2010: Roots of Convergence and Points of Departure
https://africasacountry.com/2019/05/the-complicated-political-legacy-of-jerry-rawlings
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/timeline.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/01/31/nigeria-expels-illegal-aliens/2e5fe7ed-077c-4732-927b-d087d92ee57a/
Illegals and Expulsion in Africa: The Nigerian Experience
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Music:
Kai Engel - Lesicia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Kai Engel - Norctune, CC BY-SA 4.0
French Fuse | Rain Fuse
Heartbreaking Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Alone - Emit Fenn
Epidemic Sound
#Ghana #Nigeria #GhanaMustGo
Видео Ghana Must Go! Sad Story of Why Nigeria Expelled 1 Million Ghanaians канала African Biographics
The Nigerian politicians hoped the expulsion would prove popular. Across Nigeria, up to two million migrants heard the warnings of arrest, prosecution and forced deportation if they didn’t comply.
Shagari’s policy strained relationships between the two countries and it took years for mutual respect to be reinstalled…………
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Sources:
https://atavist.mg.co.za/ghana-must-go-the-ugly-history-of-africas-most-famous-bag/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/08/14/ghana-must-go-containing-the-mayhem-of-migration/
Nigeria Under Shagari Author(s): Jon Kraus
Responses to the 1983 Expulsion of Aliens from, Nigeria: A Critique
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ghana-must-go-how-love-lost-between-two-neighbours-birthed-hammed/
https://medium.com/the-original-impostor/where-does-ghana-must-go-come-from-a2df3d40076e
Nigeria-Ghana Relations from 1960 to 2010: Roots of Convergence and Points of Departure
https://africasacountry.com/2019/05/the-complicated-political-legacy-of-jerry-rawlings
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/timeline.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/01/31/nigeria-expels-illegal-aliens/2e5fe7ed-077c-4732-927b-d087d92ee57a/
Illegals and Expulsion in Africa: The Nigerian Experience
***********************************************************************
Music:
Kai Engel - Lesicia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Kai Engel - Norctune, CC BY-SA 4.0
French Fuse | Rain Fuse
Heartbreaking Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Alone - Emit Fenn
Epidemic Sound
#Ghana #Nigeria #GhanaMustGo
Видео Ghana Must Go! Sad Story of Why Nigeria Expelled 1 Million Ghanaians канала African Biographics
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