Lagos is Nigeria’s commercial capital and its economic hub. Most of Nigeria’s major businesses are headquartered in the megapolis. Nollywood, the second largest film industry in the world is based in Lagos. It is also the heartbeat of the world-beating Afrobeats music scene.
But more than half of Lagos’s 20m people live in slums. Most struggle to earn enough to put food on the table, or have access to clean water and electricity.
Al Jazeera contrasted the struggles of the majority with the few that have made it in Lagos like comedian AY and it is cleat that such inequality is unsustainable and a recipe for disaster.
Extreme poverty lying side by side with opulence, with little legitimate means for social mobility means that Lagos and Nigeria as a whole is sitting on a powder-keg.
