In a city of fat cats and streetwise Area Boys, Lagos journalist Kirk Leigh performs a professional balancing act. Lagos, Nigeria—Lagos is famous for its Area Boys. They are not boys at all, but actually young men from the masses…
Month: May 2009
Down in Festac Town
Nigeria is clamping down on its infamous email scammers. But it is law enforcement enough? Lagos, Nigeria—Remember that Nigerian prince who contacted you a few months back, saying he needed assistance transferring his inheritance to the United States. If you…
Chatter Chatter
BY SHUBHA BALA Sweating upstairs in my private room, waiting for anything, waiting for 604800 seconds. An entire week. The autobiography of Gandhi, with its Indian pages, too thin and too smooth, sprawled out on the floor beside my bed. …