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Lagos : Supernatural City, Paperback / softback Book

Lagos : Supernatural City Paperback / softback

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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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