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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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• Celý názov: Lagos
• Podnázov: Supernatural City
• Autor: Tim Cocks
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 324
• EAN: 9781911723257
• ID: 44320143
• Nakladateľ: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Hmotnosť: 314 g
• Rozmery: 198 × 129 mm
• Dátum vydania: 11. April 2024

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