Why I Left Africa for the US

Why would a young Nigerian man want to leave Nigeria and come to America?
Hitherto my arrival at the usa, I recall my feelings of being caught up in a reverie of years long past. My ambition of leaving Nigeria and coming to the usa was fervid and I wondered if it was ever going to come to pass.
Nigeria is a country in west Africa, next to Chad, Benin, Cameroon and the Atlantic Ocean. The size of Nigeria is as big as four times the size of the united kingdom, or bigger than the entire state of Texas, and has a population of about 120 million people. …