by Isi Esene

Disregard the widely held notion of widespread suffering and poverty in Africa, retailers in the United Kingdom are experiencing a new side of Africans, albeit Nigerians, like never before.

Just trailing behind big spenders, China, and a few other countries in the middle east, Nigeria has emerged as one of the top spenders in the United Kingdom, a phenomenon which has suddenly become too hard to ignore.

In a CNN feature which details this trend, Omoyemi Akerele, director of Style House Files, says with its status as an emerging market, Nigerians are among the five biggest spenders at the Selfridges department store.

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