Nigeria
@partsunknown
on 2022.01.10
Bourdain travels to Lagos to meet the haves and have-nots of the deeply fragmented city that makes up Africa’s fourth-largest economy. In what he calls a “Wild West free-for-all of enterprise,” he sees a free-market economy at its purest. In the neighborhood of Makoko, a shantytown partially situated on a lagoon, workers string together various hustles, literally to stay afloat. Across town, on Victoria Island, are the city’s millionaires and billionaires—some of the richest people in Africa. The struggle is alive in Nigeria’s capital. Despite problems of infrastructure and government accountability, hope for a better country, continent, and world abounds.
Iya-Eba Restaurant & Bar
Restaurant · Lagos Island
Bourdain had: Pepper soup (“It burns, it burns real good,” Bourdain says) Dinner date: Kadaria Ahmed, journalist, editor, and TV host who moderates presidential debates.
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Central Mosque - Hausa Community Agege
Mosque · Ikeja
Bourdain ate: Masa (griddle cakes made from sticky rice, sugar, potash—a mineral-rich salt), fura (millet and milk compote), danwake (bean-flour dumplings served with tomatoes), moringa salad, kuli-kuli powder (ground peanut). Lunch date: His Royal Highness, Alhaji Musa Muhammadu Dogonkadai, Sarkin Hausawan Agege.
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