where good money can be earned, with their own democratically elected chairman who maintains law and order. These are people who pride them selves on the honesty of earning a living and have decided to better their lives through sheer determination and honesty. These are indeed people to be admired.
The story moves on to Makoko, a slum built on water with over a hundred thousand people living in houses built on stilts. These are people who are already adapting to the realities of modern city life, the extreme urban in much more successful ways than the so called developed world. The series then berths at Ebute-metta, West Africa’s largest timber land.
I choose to disagree that this is another avenue for the western media to discredit the country. The series narrate the lives of the poor in Nigeria, the poor we refuse to see whilst whisking through town in