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Hi, this is Saman Sobra Mangan, and I'm here to introduce the Lost Jews of Nigeria,

an article that was published by the Guardian Long Read in 2022.

My editor, David Wolfe, had seen a little article in an academic journal about a Jewish community in Nigeria, and he was very intrigued.

He is Jewish, and he hadn't ever previously heard of Jews living in Nigeria.

But the framing of the journal article kind of intrigued him as well.

This was a community that had converted all over the last 30 or 40 years.

They were from a particular ethnic group in Nigeria called the Ibo.

And the history of this strain of Jewish thinking, while the conversions had been quite new,

the history of the strain of thinking goes back more than 150 years to the middle of the 19th century. And that intrigued him

as well. Where did Judaism come from in Nigeria? How did it persist? How did it grow? How did

people learn how to be Jewish? How does anybody learn how to be a follower of a particular religion?

This was early 2022 and we were still negotiating various pandemic lockdowns, various eruptions of the

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