The “alternative” money economy of Nigerian students
In Northern Cyprus, African students, many of them Nigerian, study diligently for tertiary degrees while juggling multiple income streams in a peer-to-peer system for collective survival.
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Jing Jing Liu
Jing Jing Liu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Her research focuses on China-Nigeria, migration, development, and money.
Africans in China are on the move
Discriminatory COVID policies, increasing cost of living, and diminished purchasing power in China have pushed some Africans to return home, but others are not leaving just yet.