Nigerians in Shenzhen · 深圳
Two worlds,
one cloth.
A registered community association for Nigerians living, studying and doing business in Shenzhen. The site holds the arrival checklist, the district comparisons and the emergency page.
The first week
You just landed.
This is the order
it happens in.
Thirteen steps in sequence, from the airport counter to the residence permit, and three of them decide how easy the rest of your year is.
- 01 Clear immigration and keep the arrival card Before you leave the terminal
- 02 Get a Chinese phone number Do this first because everything else needs it
- 03 Have a way to pay tonight Foreign cards mostly will not work
- Ten more, in order Open the checklist →
The city
Where you live
decides most of it.
Rent across Shenzhen varies by a factor of three, and the commute by an hour. Nobody had written that down for a Nigerian audience, so we did it ourselves.
One-bedroom rent, ¥ per month
Eye of Shenzhen
There is a city
behind the work.
The association
Elected, and every
term is on record.
Members elect the committee. Three executive terms have been completed so far, each ending in a formal handover to the committee that came next.
- 6
- elected executives
- 6
- campus coordinators
- 7
- in the Hall of Fame
- 10
- districts covered
What we brought with us
One association,
many homes.
Members come from every part of Nigeria and from more than two hundred and fifty language groups. The cloth changes from one family to the next. The reason for being here does not.
Igbo, Yorùbá, Hausa, Ijaw, Kanuri, Tiv, Efik, Nupe, Urhobo, Ibibio and every group not printed here. If you are Nigerian and you are in Shenzhen, this association is yours.