Why I didn't move back to Nigeria despite the difficulties I faced in the US, actor Femi Brainard reveals
Nigerian actor Femi Brainard was invited to the Teju Babyface podcast and was asked to talk about his Japa experience. Brainard relocated to the United States in 2014 and the experience wasn't rosy. He went there with his wife and they struggled to pay the bills that kept coming in every day. He said there was a time when they almost became homeless and he wasn't earning as much. That day, he had gone to their apartment's parking lot to cry his eyes out after they were saved from becoming homeless. His wife had kept saving coins in a jar which were filled to the brim. When they had no money to pay for their rent for the month, she suggested that they convert those coins into paper money and that was what literally became their saving grace for the month.
Actor Femi Brainard said he worked as a cab driver to put a roof on the head of his family. According to him, one has to work for every penny in the United States because if you don't work, you will starve. He didn't want to return to Nigeria because he believes that the Nigerian economy doesn't work. So, he kept trying to make ends meet in the United States even though it wasn't easy.
==