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 rts 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. i m wearing something that s made by a nigerian. i provide my own water. i provide my own power because i have a generator. i have an invertor. there s an energy in lagos, the hustle and the bustle. man on the street: hi julia.
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, it s really the free market at its purest? tunti: exactly. lagos has been able to grow and expand itss 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 more complex. and they move it towards extinction.
and all sorts of sounds. anthony: this is mind-blowing, like amazing stuff. man in black glasses: this was a game changer. anthony: it s as if everybody took acid at the same time. man in black glasses: it was less the acid and more let s just freak out. anthony: these new sounds, mutations on funk, jazz, and rock, marked an explosive change in nigerian culture. how d 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: uh-huh. man in black glasses: blo, they had a very trippy song which i ll play for you.
femi: so you drink beer? seun: i tell you if anthony is drinking beer i m drinking beer too. femi: how can you say if he is drinking beer you are drinking beer? seun: i m a fan of femi: of him or of drinking beer? seun: no, of him. i m a fan of beer too, but if he s drinking beer, i m drinking beer. [ laughter ] anthony: you grew up in your dad s compound and i know at one point he wanted you to become an area boy. that he thought it would be good street cred. femi: that s to put it kind of mild. he just wanted me to be like from the streets. anthony: we ve been running into area boys constantly through this week and i kind of want to know how the structure works. femi: if you wanted to go for election for instance, you needed to see all the area boys. you have to give a lot of money for him to get all his gang members to vote for you. and if you do a good job in
and women enter the workforce, fewer and fewer cook the old way, long low and slow preparations that could take hours. iqou: the lagos up beat style makes it impossible for you to cook everything at home, so you go you buy from the street. anthony: so who blogs about food here? atim: we all do. iqou: we all blog about it. anthony: all? atim: yeah. anthony: atim, her mom, iqou, and friend, oz, are all hard workers, holding down multiple jobs between them. but they hold on to their fierce love of food and cooking. who are your readers? atim: primarily nigerians. anthony: homesick nigerians, also, i would think in the states. iqou: particularly homesick. atim: yeah, but then people who are married to nigerians that want to learn the cuisine. anthony: ah. these days, one often eats quickly in a place like this. yakoyo, serving traditional nigerian dishes made the way