Where you should be.... (Lagos)

in #writing5 years ago

When you wake in the morning what do you do first. A lot of people just go jogging, other take time to make early morning coffee but in the ghetto of Lagos, let me give you breakdown of how the day goes.

Unlike Los Angeles and Washington DC where you wake up with the help of an alarm, it is not so in the ghetto parts of Lagos. In Lagos, you are either woken up by the Akara woman that is selling or by the Muslim prayer cry. Waking up in Lagos is waking up to work immediately. You are never the first to wake in Lagos. You will always meet someone awake and that person met someone awake. That's because people do not sleep at all in Lagos. It is the land where no man sleeps.

Unlike Paris where you go to all kind of exotic stores and do not have access to low quality food. In Lagos, Iya sukura and Iya Basirat are always available to give you ready made food, while aboki Salisu is is there for your petty shopping which includes Top Tea bag, Milk and so on.

Lagosians can take breakfast, lunch or dinner anywhere even on traffic. You can eat anywhere, and everywhere, unlike cities where you have to look for a cool spot or a restaurant where you will eat. In Lagos, Bread and Akara is enough breakfast for the morning, Gala sausage roll for lunch and beans and garri for dinner. Do not forget this is for those who have enough cash to feed.

You can never be jobless in Lagos (You might not be employed, you may also not have a daily job) but every Lagosian has a jobless job. Anybody can decide to pick any thing as their daily job, from picking trash, to collecting money for load from transporters, to collecting money for public toilet that you did not even know how it got there. So many Lagosians might be jobless but they have their own means of survival.

LAGOSIANS ARE SURVIVORS.

They will always survive no matter the weather. Lagosians are Legendary Hustlers.

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