The City That Won't Stop Growing: Lagos, Nigeria

[Stuart G]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/lagos

A thick layer of acrid, blue smoke hovers just above the waterfront slums that skirt Lagos lagoon, filtering out sunrise and sunset.

This man-made mist that clings to the rusted shack rooftops comes from the countless fish-smoking cabins that drive the slum economy.

There’s an uninterrupted view of the city’s dramatic sprawl of poverty from the road bridges that carry daily commuters between the islands and the mainland.

Fishing and sand-dredging boats drift to work, heading deep into the lagoon.

Many of the slums’ wooden huts are on stilts, others are just basic shacks shoddily built on the unstable ground of trodden-down rubbish dumps.

Nobody knows exactly how many people live in Lagos, but they all agree on one thing – Nigeria's biggest city is growing at a terrifying rate.

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1. LMMFAO @ "Legos", Nigeria...

...Bricks and mini-figs...

[AJT]

2. A stable government with reasonable regulations?

Who needs that.....

[Stuart G]

3. An article about extreme poverty and rapid growth in population

Difficult article to read, but very comprehensive.