Lagos : Supernatural City Hardback
by Tim Cocks
Hardback
Description
This is a frantic, mystical journey through Africa's biggest metropolis: Lagos.
Going beyond the popular images of mad traffic or crowded slums, we learn of the incredible feats Lagosians pull off to survive their broken-down city, and the secret enabling them to cope with the chaos and precarity of Nigeria's most populous centre: spirituality. A female street fighter in a male-dominated mafia extortion business.
Two powerful chiefs locked in a deadly feud over billion-dollar real estate.
An oil tycoon who gambles her fortune on televangelists' prophecies.
A rubbish scavenger dreaming of a reggae career. A fisherman's son trying to save Makoko, the 'floating slum', from demolition.
A priestess to a river goddess selling sand to feed Lagos's construction boom. Belief in unseen forces unites these figures, as does their commitment to worshipping them--at shrines, in mosques and in churches.
In this extraordinary city, Tim Cocks uncovers something universal about human nature in the face of danger and high uncertainty: our tendency to place faith in a realm beyond.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781787386945
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781787386945