Ghana Must Go

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Over a million West African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, were ordered to leave Nigeria at short notice in 1983. The Nigerian economy was suffering a downturn. But hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians then found themselves stuck outside Ghana's border unable to get back home. Alex Last has spoken to one Ghanaian who took part in the forced exodus.

Photo: Migrants leaving Nigeria wait at the border to enter Benin. Credit: Michel Setboum/Getty Images.

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1:06.2	Hello and thank you for downloading The Witness Podcast
1:08.9	from the BBC World Service with me Alex Last.
1:12.1	And today we go back to 1983 when Nigeria suddenly announced
1:16.7	that a million African migrants had to leave the country within a few weeks.
1:21.5	In 2013 I spoke to one of the migrants who joined the exodus.
1:27.0	It's late January 1983, and Nigeria the President Shehuh Shaggery has suddenly announced that all foreigners without the right paperwork have just weeks to leave the country.
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