I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony lagos, nigerias megacity. One of the most dynamic, unrestrained and energetic expressions of free market capitalism and do it yourself entrepreneurship on the planet. Kadaria when you have a place of 20 Million People, they have to eat. They have to wear clothes. They have to do all sorts of things. I mean lagos is a testament to the resilience and to the ingenuity of the nigerian spirit. Anthony buy, sell, trade, hustle and claw. Make your own way, any way you can. Kadaria nobody does any one job in this country. Anthony is that what they say . You have to have three hustles. Kadaria yes. You see people making watches from scraps. There are people who make shoes. Im wearing something thats made by a nigerian. I provide my own water. I provide my own power because i have a generator. I have an invertor. Theres an energy in lagos, the hustle and the bustle. Man on the street hi julia. Heres your boy Anthony Anthony with a ridiculously over burdened infrastructure and a history of egregiously bent leadership, they long ago learned that aint nobody going to help you in this world. Pick up a broom, a hammer. Buy a taxi or a truck. Build a bank or a billion dollar company, and get to work. Banky i will push myself. I will do what i need to do. I will do whatever it takes to take care of myself and my family. Anthony am i in Victoria Island right now . Banky yes. Anthony okay. So this is the promise land . Banky this is manhattan. Anthony Victoria Island, the garden of dreams. Where the winners work, and play. Theres money in nigeria, lots of it, mostly from oil, agriculture and Services Like banking. [ fireworks erupting ] lagos alone is the fifth largest economy in africa, nine thousand millionaires and billionaires. Many of africas richest people live here. 50 years ago, there were 300,000 people in lagos, and there are now banky almost 20,000,000. Anthony around 20,000,000. There are a whole lot of people leaving where ever they were. Banky yep. Anthony coming to the big city looking to get a job, looking to make it big. Banky absolutely. Anthony the smartest, the fastest, the best, the brightest make it over here. Banky yup. Its that place. Itll make you. Or itll break you. Sink or swim. Anthony shina pella owns quilox one of africas most exclusive night clubs. Shina i built the nightclub by myself with my construction company. Anthony banky wellington is an artist and business man. Banky im a record label owner. Im an actor. Im a director. I do videos and tv commercials. Im in advertising. Im in real estate. Im training to be a chef. Anthony why work so hard . You dont have to hustle. Your life is good. Business is good. Why you doing so many things . Shina that is something that is just common in nigeria. You know . Banky theres the internal nigerian optimism, that tomorrow is going to be better than today. Anthony yeah. Where does that come from . Why are nigerians so optimistic . Banky i think its born out of necessity. You know . Either youre going to make it. Or youre going to be screwed. You almost dont have a choice. You need to be trying Everything Possible to be successful. I must make it. I must be successful. [ speaking Foreign Language ] anthony right over there, Victoria Island. Thats the nigerian dream, right . If i just hustle enough. If i figure out a way, i have a master plan. Gods help im going to end up over there. Its close. Its really close. How do you get from here to there . Edoato its 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 its 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 ] its a fully functioning community. Ive seen barbershops, restaurants, groceries, hotels edoato hospitals, private schools anthony self made, self run, self policing, independent of everything. It exists because it has to. I mean theres electricity. Theres water. All of this you provide, yes . Edoato yes. Yomi yes. We provide. Anthony Edoato Agbeniyi is a musician and activist. Edoato this community started from nothing. Now its booming. And the government is coming to cease it. Anthony they want to get you out, right . Yomi yes. Anthony theyd like to build hotels. Yomi mesu, the son of a neighborhood leader but theyve been forced to stop. Edoato no they are not stopping, weve been able to halt them. Two, three weeks ago there was another community on the other side of this on the island was also demolished. Yomi they just come and demolish. Edoato the People Living here, theres also livelihood that depends on fishing. They are fisher people. So if you take them to the mainland, its like taking the fish out of water. Yomi they cant survive. Cant survive. Cant survive. Anthony what do we have here, what kind of fish . Yomi this is moyo. Anthony moyo. Yomi you eat it with this inaudible flake. We call this eba. Anthony all right. Yomi and here we call this galee. Anthony that looks good. Good. Delicious. All the children i see, do they go to school . What will they do, will they stay here and take up the Family Business or are they going to move on . Edoato some will grow up to be accountants, theyll become professionals. But what would a lawyer do . What would an accountant do . When there is no food, most of the fresh fishes that have been sold to the rich men in government have been taken from this village. We need people that do fishing, that do farming. Anthony but youre going to need lawyers. Edoato definitely Everybody Needs everybody. [ singing ] what if you had fewer headaches and migraines a month . Botox® prevents headaches and migraines before they even start. Botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® injections take about 15 minutes in your Doctors Office and are covered by most insurance. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. Alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition. 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Its said to be a 2 billion dollar market. Anthony public money is generated in lagos, not so much by oil but by the free market. A wild west free for all of private enterprise. Tunti it grew organically, not by government intervention. Anthony it just happened. Tunti it just happened. Everything is crammed into this small ecosystem. You have one small store. Somebody selling mobile phones right in it. And in front of him you got another guy whos selling applications for the phones. A repair guy hes right there, and it works. Thats the amazing thing about it. Anthony tunti andrews is a journalist, radio host, and an expert on the nigerian economy. The guys who fascinate me are these kids sitting there with phones are opened up. Like if i want my iphone repaired in new york i have to go to the apple store and i have to wait on line, i have to say bye to my phone for a while. But here they know how to take apart my iphone, fix it, and put it back together. Tunti this how the Computer Village ecosystem works right, a young boy trying to make a better life for himself finds his way to lagos. And one of his brothers or his uncles are working here and then he starts to learn how to repair mobile phones right. Anthony right. Tunti and sometimes i tend 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 thats 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, lets 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, ive 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 you say, hey, i want to repair my phone. He says, okay, i can do it for you for 5000 naira. Now all you have to do is look across the road and find somebody who can do exactly the same thing, and he knows that, right . So, he starts to think to himself, i better give him the best price i can possibly give him, so that i can get his market. Anthony completely unregulated as far as prices. Tunti completely unregulated. Anthony so, its really the free market at its purist . Tunti exactly. Lagos has been able to grow and expand its borders and that comes from the sweat of people on the street. Once government interferes in private activity, more often than not, they make it complex. And they move it towards extinction. [ cars honking ] tunti a lot of people are outside the tax net, so the State Government has to do very genius in trying to get taxes. 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 boys 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 dont depend on government fine, but youre running your own business. Anthony right. Kadaria so you pay a bribe. Because thats the only way to get things done. Every person seems to be tainted a little. Anthony police, politicians, business leaders. Everybody gets their piece of the action. Its a daily fact of life in lagos. [ sirens ] this is a big oil rich country. Why doesnt it look like dubai . Kadaria well, i hate to be on this show and talk nigeria down. You know what it is, because you hear all these things all the time. So, yes, there is corruption, it is about corruption. Its about that fact that the resources that are supposed to be used for people arent being used for people. Anthony Kadaria Ahmed is a progressive journalist, editor, and tv host who moderates the president ial debates. Kadaria years of military rule meant that people were brutalized. There was a fight against thinking. Anthony there was an antiintellectual movement where you were punished for kadaria shamed. Anthony shamed for reading, for having an education, for aspiring to those things. Kadaria so, yeah. You saw a decline in education. That continued for thirty years. The biggest obstacle in this country is the political class. Because what we have in nigeria if you lose elections, you then jump to the other party. And you win elections. And then if you lose, you go back to this other party. So its the same people. Theyre going to fight tooth and nail to stay in office. And to keep the system the way it is. Anthony pepper soup is the food of the night in dark places. It burns, it burns real good. Delicious. This is a very i. T. Savvy country. Nigerian internet scammers are world renown. Kadaria they are a tiny minority, i must tell you. Anthony it may not be a legit enterprise, but you got some very smart, hardworking people. Kadaria theyre very talented. Imagine if they were all well educated, if they had access to finance. I believe if youre a black person, whether youre african or youre africanamerican, youre never going to get any respect unless there is a successful black nation. Motivational speaker it is unwise to hold other people, your employer, or even the government accountable for your success. Kadaria that is the only way people are going to respect you. Motivational speaker you must do it yourself. Is this ride safe . I assembled it myself last night. I think i did an ok job. Just ok . What if something bad happens . We just move to the next town. Just ok is not ok. 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Anthony this is mindblowing amazing stuff. Man in black glasses this was a game changer. Anthony its as if everybody took acid at the same time. Man in black glasses it was less the acid and more lets just freak out. Anthony these new sounds, mutations on funk, jazz, and rock, marked an explosive change in nigerian culture. Howd it do when it came out . Man in black glasses it was wildfire. Anthony really . It was a hit . Man in black glasses it was a massive hit. Anthony timmy castro is a collector and aficionado. Man in black glasses this is really where it started from. Anthony uhhuh. Man in black glasses blo, they had a very trippy song which ill play for you. Anthony yeah, lets hear. This is freaky. Man in black glasses that shift in music had a lot to do with the war. Archival nigerias rebel eastern state, the republic of inaudible declared itss independence. Man in black glasses that music was needed to translate the darkness. Archival soldiers of the breakaway province suffered heavy casualties and ultimate defeat. 1000 inaudible a day died of starvation. Anthony the music was a defiant middle finger to war, to corruption, and to repressive military rule. Man in black glasses you know how military dictators try to control everything. Anthony but of all the music at the time, nothing and nobody took it directly to the people in such explicitly confrontational terms, its afrobeat and its architect, fela kuti. When the government were giving fela a hard time because he was specifically protesting by name, specific things. I mean they identified him as an existential threat, he was. People would show up at the shrine and whats he going to say, whats he mad about today. Fela was an african superstar. A loud, persistent, and unwavering voice of opposition and resistance. Man in black glasses people protested but they didnt name names, but fela would name names and would say youre a [ bleep ] thief. Femi for one decade, felas voice was the only voice here. And he paid a very high price. His house was burned. He was stopped from playing. Anthony fela died in 1997 of aids after a social life that could be best described as complicated. He married 27 wives in one day, for instance. But he left behind an enormous legacy and a family, including two internationally celebrated musicians in their own right, femi and seun kuti. Femi because of fela we are able to voice our feelings today. Yeni if things are not right, you cant just gloss over it. Theres no reason why this country cannot be ten times better. Anthony daughter yeni runs this place. The new africa shrine. Yeni we have more money, we have more oil. But we have bad leaders. Anthony both a musical venue, and a political pulpit with a vital position at the epicenter of nigerian music. Femi so you drink beer . Seun i tell you if anthony is drinking beer im drinking beer too. Femi how can you say if he is drinking beer you are drinking beer . Seun i