Migrants as missing voices in Nigeria›s Japa stories

Between 2020 and 2024, according to National Bureau of Statistics data cited in my study, more than two million Nigerians left the country. «Japa», the Yoruba slang for fleeing, became the shorthand for a generation›s decision to go. The same bureau put 133 million Nigerians, or 63 per cent of the population, in multidimensional poverty. Its migration survey found that…