anthony: masa, rice cakes made from nigerian sticky rice, sugar and potash, a mineral-rich salt. this is fura, it s made from millet and milk. anthony: it s more like a yogurt, slightly sour. yes. anthony: that s great. this is sort of a surprising food. it s also made of beans. anthony: this is all beans? yes. anthony: danwake, high protein bean flour dumplings served with tomatoes, onions in a peppery sauce. mmm, delicious. moringa. anthony: and moringa salad, made from the leaves of the zogala tree. it s said to have medicinal properties. kuli-kuli powder is a garnish or condiment made from ground peanuts. what do you see the future of this area and your people? everything relies on education. we promote both western and arabic knowledge. the whole africa, even the whole world, is represented in lagos, so we have to work together. the prophet of islam muhammad,
master plan, god s help, i m going to end up over there. it s close. it s really close. how do you get from here to there? edoato: it s impossible. the government and the people in power made poor people perpetually poor. anthony: this is the other lagos, makoko, a city within a city. edoato: this community has been in existence for over a 100 years. anthony: this used to be a little fishing village. edoato: yeah. anthony: people started showing up, no plan, build your own house. edoato: it s a community that has been built not built on government plan. it is an ingenuity of the people. anthony: how many people live here? edoato: the whole waterway. anthony: the whole waterway. edoato: the whole waterway would be about 100,000 people. [ singing ]
andela, cofounded by iyinoluwa aboyeji and run in nigeria by seni sulyman, is a rigorous training program that teaches coders and engineers with the goal of creating no less than a continent-wide ecosystem of high value software developers. shalom: my mom has like a mobile shop, something like what s in computer village. that s where i grew up, like, she would sell mobile phones and they d fix it there, and she just used to run that. blessing: i tried looking for a job, but the jobs i got, i said, no, i don t want to be a salesperson, i don t want to be a secretary. so that s why i got into programming. anthony: shalom and blessing are trainees in the program, people who will someday rewrite the way africa works. seni: as you can see, there are a lot of issues in nigeria today. the average nigerian is struggling for just food, water, clothing, shelter. we all believe that this will change, and we all believe that we will change that.
to think they deal with trial and error, so your phone might just be a practice but anthony: right. tunti: yeah. anthony: but they get there eventually. tunti: they get there eventually, and that s the success story of almost all the people you see here. most of them came into this particular market with nothing. okay, this is anthony: oh, yeah, let s go get some food. tunti: exactly. anthony: pounded yam is the ubiquitous starch of nigerian cuisine. here served with egusi soup. a stew of goat meat, melon seeds, fish stock and chiles. this is very, very good. so, i ve heard this market described as the perfect market. now, what does that mean? tunti: right here, you can find on the same street, about 20 people doing exactly the same thing. so you go to the first guy and
anthony: right. [ speaking foreign language ] who really runs the streets the de facto front line of law and order or area boys? tunti: the government tries to get people on the street, like the foot soldiers. anthony: an area boy s crew levels street taxes on, well, everything. reporting to their regional boss. a king of boys. [ speaking foreign language ] taxis, buses, any target of opportunity pays. kadaria: we don t depend on government, fine, but you re running your own business. anthony: right. kadaria: so you pay a bribe. because that s the only way to get things done.