| ID | 136350 |
| Title Proper | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Other Title Information | Olayinka Oluwakuse III on what to see, do, taste, and buy-and how to speak some pidgin along the way-o |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Gordon, Glenna |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | WE SAT IN ENDLESS TRAFFIC, listening to Afrobeat on Smooth 98.1, in downtown Lagos, Nigeria. Olayinka Oluwakuse III, who goes by Yinka, explained that he isn't a full-time hxer for journalists--or, at least, that he doesn't do it for the money. He does the job (and does it well) because he likes hanging out with people--whether it's taking them to Makoko, a slum on Lagos's waterfront that, he said, journalists always want to see, or escorting them to the sets of Nollywood, Nigeria's film industry.
Yinka is like many other entrepreneurial types in one of Africa's largest cities. Depending on whom you ask, Lagos is home to 15 million people, or maybe 25. It has only a few tall buildings, and everything is packed together: pedestrians, buses, apartments, street vendors, taxi touts. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Policy Vol. No.210; Jan-Feb.2015: p.78-80 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Policy 2015-02 |
| Standard Number | Nigeria |