The Farmed Nigerian Children

The Farmed Nigerian Children to the British:

In the same way, we have unique terms for some peculiar incidents during the era of slavery and colonization in some regions of the world, one of the most popular which is apartheid in South Africa, is the same one we have in Nigeria. This is referred to as FARMING.

Farming was a phenomenon peculiar to Nigeria as children were historically being Farmed from their parents by the British Social workers shortly after the Second World War.

Shortly after the Second World War, the British Empire sought support from some of its colonies to help rebuild Britain. The most notable among the commonwealth countries were the Caribbeans, Nigerians, and Jamaicans. Attributed to the Jamaicans and Caribbeans is a phenomenon called THE WINDRUSH, and the Children affected during the Windrush generation are called the Barrel children WATCH THE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

The Nigeria Immigrants brought in for the labor force in rebuilding Britain Farmed their children, in what is now called Foster to White working-class families in their thousands. The idea told to these Nigerians was for them to be able to have time to work and accomplish what they set out to do, and once this is done, they can then get their children back and return to their country, but this wasn’t the case. By the time these Nigerians accomplished their tasks, made enough money, and ready to return to their country, many of these Nigerians could not get back their children, neither could they locate them. This practice was then known as Farming.

In an interview by a CNN journalist with a popular British Actor, Adewale Akinnuoye, Adewale narrated how he was Farmed at the age of 6 weeks old to a White couple in the South-East of England.

In a 2018 movie titled “FARMING,” by the Nigerian-born British Actor  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje further used the movie to describe his narrative, the incident during Farming Nigerian children which explores the practice of Nigerian immigrants thought to be temporarily giving their children to be fostered by White families between the 1950s and 1980s, which created the first Black British generation born in Britain.