For too long, African cities were treated as gateways to safaris, beaches, and heritage sites. That story is changing fast. From Nairobi’s food, nightlife, conferences, and outdoor escapes to Lagos, Accra, Dakar, Marrakech, Stone Town, and beyond, urban Africa is becoming a destination in its own right.
Nigeria is a fascinating country with a lot of potential. The country is much better than its reputation. The Nigeria Police is, if anything worse though! Constant harassment by the people who are supposed to enforce the law is one of the most stressful aspects of life in this otherwise so promising country. Actually, it…
Lagos is, by far, the biggest city in Sub-saharan Africa. With its 10+ million inhabitants, it eclipses Johannesburg, Nairobi and Addis Ababa, and is second only to Cairo. It is one of the fastest-growing cities on the planet, and increasingly a magnet for investors, multi-national companies and expatriates seeking to tap into the booming Nigerian and…
Cities that have been around for a long time have an “atmosphere of old civilization” that you simply don’t find in younger cities. Even if the old buildings are gone, there is something that you can’t really point out, that tells you that culture and civilization has thrived for centuries. Benin City is such a…
Abeokuta, the former capital city of one of the few internationally recognised pre-colonial states in Africa – the Egba Government – and current capital of Ogun State, is less than an hours drive away from Lagos, yet visited by few travellers. When entering Abeokuta, the first thing one notices are the seemingly century-old low-rise buildings,…
Having relocated from Nairobi to Lagos in January 2013, I have settled down, and gotten more or less used to living here. Apartment, car, driver, etc., are already in place, and I dare commend my own exploration work on the wining and dining scene. Getting to terms with the almost exclusively cash-based economy is a challenge,…
