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| ISBN | 9781787386945 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.08.2022 |
| Größe | 218 x 149 mm |
| Verlag | Hurst & Co. |
| Lieferzeit | Lieferung innerhalb von 28 Werktagen |
| Herstellerangaben | Anzeigen Libri GmbH Europaallee 1 | D-36244 Bad Hersfeld gpsr@libri.de |
This is a frantic, mystical journey through Africa's biggest metropolis: Lagos. Going beyond the popular images of mad traffic or crowded slums, it tells of the incredible feats Lagosians must pull off to survive their broken-down city. It also reveals 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 and transformation into luxury waterside flats. A priestess to a river goddess selling sand to feed Lagos's voracious construction boom. If anything unites these disparate figures, it is their belief in unseen forces, and their commitment to worshipping them--whether at secret shrines to West African gods and ancestors, or in the iron-roofed churches and domed mosques dotting the Lagos skyline. 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.| ISBN | 9781787386945 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.08.2022 |
| Größe | 218 x 149 mm |
| Verlag | Hurst & Co. |
| Lieferzeit | Lieferung innerhalb von 28 Werktagen |
| Herstellerangaben | Anzeigen Libri GmbH Europaallee 1 | D-36244 Bad Hersfeld gpsr@libri.de |
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