 What is japa? It's when you try to move out of the country. Running away when everything else seems to be not working in the community. If I say I want to japa, I want to leave here. I don't want to be here anymore. Students here at the University of Lagos are facing a difficult choice and it can be summed up in that one word, japa. It means to escape and increasingly it's become shorthand for leaving Nigeria altogether.