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Nigerian Americans; Total population; 760,079 (2023) [1] (ancestry or ethnic origin) 476,008 (2023) [2] (born in Nigeria) Regions with significant populations; Texas (especially Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and San Antonio) • Northeastern US (especially NYC, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia) • California (Los Angeles, Bay Area) • Florida (Miami, Tampa, Orlando) • Georgia • Chicago ...
Latunde Odeku, first Nigerian neurosurgeon trained in the United States; pioneer of neurosurgery in Africa Chidi Chike Achebe , physician executive and son of Chinua Achebe Bankole Johnson , psychiatrist ; discoverer of topiramate, a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) facilitator and glutamate antagonist, as an effective treatment for alcoholism.
American people of Yoruba descent (119 P) Pages in category "American people of Nigerian descent" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total.
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Nigerian diaspora in the United States (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Nigerian diaspora in North America" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Today, many African Americans share ancestry with the Yoruba people. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] After the slavery abolition in 1865, many modern Nigerian immigrants of Yoruba ancestry have come to the United States starting in the mid-twentieth century to pursue educational opportunities in undergraduate and post-graduate institutions.
Pages in category "Nigerian-American culture and history" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As of 2005 most of the Nigerian immigrants come from southern Nigeria. [5] As of 2014 the numbers of Igbo Nigerian Americans in the Dallas–Fort Worth area were in the ten thousands. Several Nigerian community leaders in the DFW area stated that there were up to 50,000 Igbos in the region. [2]