On Saturday, April 1, 1978, President Jimmy Carter of the United States arrived in Lagos, marking a major moment in Nigeria–United States relations. Carter’s visit, which lasted from March 31 to April 3, 1978, was the first visit to Nigeria by a sitting U.S. president and the first official state visit by a U.S. president to sub-Saharan Africa. Carter was received by Nigeria’s Head of State, Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo, who had himself visited Washington, D.C., in October 1977 and met w