Lagos: A Cultural and Literary History

Name: Lagos: A Cultural and Literary History
Author: Kaye Whiteman
ISBN: 9781908493057

by Kaye Whiteman

ISBN: 9781908493057

Published: 2012

Cities and towns

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 trading hub and, for thirty years, a federal capi ...