Educating a Transnational Postcolonial Elite : United States University Scholarships for Nigerian Students (1961-1975)

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Edeagu, Ngozi:
Educating a Transnational Postcolonial Elite : United States University Scholarships for Nigerian Students (1961-1975).
In: Diasporas : Circulations, Migrations, Histoire. Vol. 37 (2021) . - pp. 79-94.
ISSN 2431-1472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.6285

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Post-independence Nigerian university students have constituted an integral part of the volume of international migrants to the United States. This paper furthers this conversation by unpacking the exclusionary national structures that fostered a novel post-colonial transnational Nigerian elite class in the 1960s and 1970s through the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. By scrutinising the backgrounds of scholarship participants recovered from fragmentary and transnational sources, this article argues that the programme reinforced existing dichotomies in Nigeria.

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Les étudiants nigérians postcoloniaux ont pleinement participé aux migrations internationales en direction des États-Unis. Cet article s’intéresse aux structures d’exclusion qui, à travers l’African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU), ont favorisé l’émergence d’une nouvelle classe d’élite nigériane postcoloniale et transnationale dans les années 1960 et 1970. En examinant les antécédents des participants aux bourses d’études, recueillis à partir de sources fragmentaires et transnationales, cet article montre que le programme a participé au renforcement des dichotomies existantes au Nigeria.