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Writer, freelancer, student @ Federal University of Lafia
Writer, freelancer, student @ Federal University of Lafia
JAPA vs SAPA....
<p>Back then in secondary school, Jaden's civic education teacher will teach about our country and always pop the question "if you want to leave this country and settle abroad raise your hands"... Many children in the classroom will raise their hands with gladsome minds leaving the teacher with mixed gestures of happiness and pity.</p><p><br/></p><p>Jaden never understood those gestures then but now he does...</p><p><br/></p><p>Six months ago, Jaden woke up in the morning usually feeling fed up with the recent happenings in the country then the idea of travelling and settling down abroad hit his mind and never left him. He began to make plans, sold all his properties, everything just to gather enough funds required to travel successfully.</p><p><br/></p><p>He applied for visa, got rejected a few times but he kept on trying.... After few attempts, he got the visa and passport. He became overjoyed and fully expectant, he said "I will travel abroad, find a place to stay and begin to work and I will become rich"... Well, he had no solid plan, no scholarship opportunity, no shelter, no source of income yet but just the excitement.</p><p><br/></p><p>He arrived there and suddenly, reality hit him hard again. He discovered that there are no 'underbridges' to stay at, you can't convert dollars to naira and use there, you earn in dollars and spend in dollars, the amount of time you work will assertain the amount of money you will be paid on a daily basis, you can't dump garbage anywhere, everything has bills...waste bills, electricity bills, gas refill bills... you name it.</p><p><br/></p><p>And because Jaden didn't have a solid plan, nothing worked for him and he began to regret the decision he made so he is now stuck in the middle of a rock and a hard place.</p><p><br/></p><p>Should he come back to Nigeria?</p><p><br/></p><p>Should he stay there and keep trying?</p><p><br/></p><p>He doesn't want to come back and continue living in "sapa" neither does he want to keep living abroad because the "japa" didn't work out for him</p><p><br/></p><p>Can he bring himself out of "sapa" if he returns to Nigeria? OR</p><p><br/></p><p>Can he still make it in the "japa" country?</p><p><br/></p><p>What are your thoughts on this?</p>
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