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    Lagos: A Cultural History

    By Kye Whiteman

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    Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-Saharan Africa and possibly the world's third largest city. This phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady turbulence, especially as it only took on the form of a coherent urban entity in the eighteenth century. After Nigeria's independence Lagos remained both a trading hub and, for thirty years, a federal capital and political vortex. Now, its driving sense of "can-do," its outreach and vitality, make it a fulcrum and a channel for commercial and cultural talent.

    Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and reclamation lead to a permanently shifting topography, but history has thrust it into the role of burgeoning mega-city, overcoming all nature's obstacles. The city's melting-pot has fertilized a unique literary and artistic flowering that is only now beginning to be appreciated by a world that has only seen slums and chaos.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInterlink Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781623710408
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