EIGHT DAYS A WEEK Stella McCartney was born with a platinum spoon in her mouth and is under no pressure to do anything at all. Yet she has worked hard to become quite accomplished in her own right. Hard to find fault with that. It's a tribute to both her and Sir Paul. TRK, Ashburn, Va., posted on nytimes.com Those shoes. Why do women feel as if...
Kunle Afolayan wants to scare you, he wants thrill you, he wants to make you laugh, but most of all, he would like you to suspend your disbelief -- in his plots, yes, which tend to be over the top, but also about what is possible in Africa. He bristles if you call him an ''African filmmaker'' -- a phrase redolent of art-house cinema, which his work...
LAGOS -- On the 51st anniversary of Nigeria's independence a week ago, the sky over Lagos was dimly silver, rain was pattering on a million tin roofs, and the country felt itself to be in something of a funk. ''No cause for celebration 51 years after,'' proclaimed the front page of The Punch, an English-language daily newspaper, on Monday,...
Lagos er den største by i Nigeria, og med anslået 10,4 millioner indbyggere (2012) blandt de største byer i Afrika . Lagos er også en af verdens hurtigst voksende byer, og man regner med at den i 2020 vil have ca. 20 millioner indbyggere, og dermed blive en af verdens største byer.
Lagos er ca. 40 km i udstrækning, hvilken gør den til et af Afrika's største storbysområder. Lagos var Nigerias hovedstad indtil 1991, hvor hovedstaden blev flyttet til Abuja i det centrale Nigeria.
Lagos er en havneby ved Guineabugten; byen har en af de få gode naturhavne ved Afrikas atlantershavskyst.
Lagos har et af Vestafrikas største vejnet; flere motorveje gennemskærer Stor-Lagos og og tre broer forbinder øen Victoria Island med fastlandet. Lagos har også en lufthavn kaldt Murtala Muhammed International Airport som ligger på fastlandet i forstaden Ikeja og som forbinder Lagos med hele verden.