This is a frantic, mystical journey through Africas biggest metropolis: Lagos. Going beyond the popular images of mad traffic or crowded slums, we learn of the incredible feats Lagosians pull off to survive their broken-down city, and the secret enabling them to cope with the chaos and precarity of Nigerias most populous centre: spirituality. A female street fighter in a male-dominated mafia extortion business. Two powerful chiefs locked in a deadly feud over billion-dollar real estate. An oil tycoon who gambles her fortune on televangelists prophecies. A rubbish scavenger dreaming of a reggae career. A fishermans son trying to save Makoko, the floating slum, from demolition. A priestess to a river goddess selling sand to feed Lagoss construction boom. Belief in unseen forces unites these figures, as does their commitment to worshipping them.
