Nigeria

Nigeria

Sayre P. Schatz
Few visitors to the seaside city of Lagos ever forget it.
With boundless vitality, it has grown since 1965 from a city of 300,000 souls to a sprawling metropolis of 3.5 million. Al- ready the city has spilled over from its original islet, one-tenth the size of Manhattan, to the adjacent islands and the mainland. New comn~unities take root at the fringes every year. In all of "greater Lagos," there are perhaps 10 million people.
The city boasts a modern university, a...

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