Three part observational documentary series which explores life at the sharp end of one of the most extreme urban environments in the world: Lagos, Nigeria. Fifty years ago, Lagos, then Nigeria’s capital, was a city the size of today’s Bradford, with a population of a little less than 300,000 people. Everyone said it was lovely. Now 16 million people live there: it is one of a new breed of megacities in a world that is abandoning the countryside. And it grows by 600,000 a year. That’s like chucking in Glasgow every 12 months. It’s a monster, force-fed to morbid obesity, but with the bone structure of a baby. It can’t function properly, just lies there growing, groaning, and threatening to burst. No one says Lagos is lovely any more.
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