Naija Nigerian Hats

Nigerian-Americans are the largest African diaspora in the United States: the 2022 American Community Survey estimated 712,294 Americans of Nigerian ancestry, and Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, counted 34,937 Nigerian residents in the 2020 census. The vocabulary they brought is now mainstream. The jollof rice argument is the loudest part. The Jollof Wars between Nigeria and Ghana are mainly fought with memes, a Nigerian telecom declared August 22 World Jollof Rice Day, and a 2016 Sister Deborah song took the Ghana side. Nigerians, as one Fader interviewee put it, are not going to say Ghanaian jollof is better. Hence NIGERIAN JOLLOF IS SUPERIOR, and a fan club for MY JOLLOF. The rest is party and pidgin. An owambe is the grandiose Yoruba party thrown by Nigerians anywhere in the world, with food, dancing, loud music and spraying: throwing money on a dancing person. Japa is to flee abroad, which most Nigerian youth are said to want. No wahala means no trouble. Naija no dey carry last is reported to mean that Nigeria does not come last, and Nike's 2018 Naija World Cup kit drew 3 million pre-orders. Each design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear it to the owambe, or give one to the aunty who has never lost a jollof argument.