This Lagos can kill your dreams, sha – Toni Kan

In my novel, The Carnivorous City (go and buy it o, if you haven’t, tenkiu) I wrote that Lagos “the chaotic and carnivorous city which was at the very same moment, a garden where men and women came to harvest…

Yaba “Bend Down” Market saved my life – Toni Kan

One day in February 1992, my father came to see me in school. I was in my first semester at the University of Jos. It was a cold morning. Jos was still shrugging off the harmattan. I dashed out of…

My name is Maxim, Obi of Ikate – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Many moons ago, long before Toni Kan became the Mayor of Lagos, I was crowned the Obi of Ikate, the overcrowded suburbia of Surulere, Lagos. I lived upstairs, in a cramped two-bedroom back-flat on Olushola-Keku Street, towards the right end…

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