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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Lagos City in 1964 By The New York Times
Two Faces of an African City: New and Old in Lagos
~ By LLOYD GARRISON; Special to The New York Times
SEPTEMBER 6, 1964.
LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 5 —Lagos, like Manhattan, is an island city with no place to go but up.
Newcomers arriving by sea marvel at the dazzling glass and aluminum office buildings thrusting skyward from the Marina, which is to Lagos what the Battery is to Manhattan. But after their ship has sailed up the placid lagoon and they debark, they find the tall new buildings largely a facade.
Behind the facade sprawls the other Lagos: the twisting streets, the open drains, the barefoot children; the sprawling fly‐infested market with its shrewd “mammy” traders who carry their change in their skirts and deposit their profits at Barclays Bank; the once stately Portuguese houses with their carved doors and decaying columns.
The Portuguese houses, built by merchants who dealt in spices and slaves, are now partitioned into rooms for rent. With more than 20 persons to a house and more than three to a room, Lagos landlords have made a killing.
The Tide Keeps Moving
One statistic tells a lot about Lagos: in 10 years it has doubled in population to become a metropolis of well over half a million people. It seems that nothing — unemployment, overcrowding, high rents, rising prices — can stem the incoming tide, for Lagos is a city of dreams.
The poor stream in from the provinces, propelled by the hope of a job paying cash. Few find one, but to go back to the village or the farm would be to admit failure. So the newcomers stay on, swelling the ranks of the unemployed, already more than 100,000.
But Lagos is not all heartbreak. As the Federal capital it is a melting pot of all the rival tribes from the outlying regions. Here they can move freely, and more and more they are intermarrying.
Lagos is also the intellectuals’ haven. Playwrights
The sculptor Ben Enwonwu works here when not traveling to London or Rome on special commissions. At the Federal exhibition center on the Marina, there is always a flock of admirers — and buyers — for the weekly art showings.
“Lagos is a great place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live here,” is the refrain of many Nigerians who come from cities where the pace is slower. But this is the New York of West Africa, and as in New York, the dreamers still outnumber the skeptics.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
AfDB To Invest US$24 Billion in Agriculture in the Next 10 years
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will invest US $24 billion dollars in agriculture as part of its Feed Africa programme- a strategy for agricultural development in Africa.
President of the Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, said this in a speech he delivered at the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Make Makoko Africa's First Destination for Waterfront Tourism
Makoko is famous for having the most popular waterfront slum in the world, fondly called the "Black Venice" of Africa by the Western news media and has attracted several documentary photographers and filmmakers. The popular award winning Nigerian filmmaker, Femi Odugbemi did his best to capture the depth of Makoko in motion picture in his critically acclaimed short documentary, Makoko: Futures Afloat and in his romantic drama, Gidi Blues.
Makoko is a small neighbourhood across the 3rd Mainland Bridge located on the coast of mainland Lagos. A third of the community is built on stilts along the lagoon and the rest is on the land. The waterfront part of the community is largely harboured by the Egun people who migrated from Badagary and Republic of Benin and whose main occupation is fishing.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Jobs At 100 Resilient Cities
Work with 100 Resilient Cities
Team members at 100 Resilient Cities work in a fast-paced and international environment, collaborating closely with cities, co-workers, and resilience experts all over the world to build the global practice of resilience among governments, NGOs, the private sector, and individual citizens. Working at 100 RC requires a rare mix: a strong commitment to the mission of building urban resilience, the ability to thrive under dynamic conditions, appropriate international sensitivity, and the capacity to drive progress while managing multiple responsibilities.
To apply for a position with 100RC, please follow the instructions detailed in the following job postings. Please note that 100RC may only contact successful applicants regarding their candidacies.
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Regional Director – Europe & Middle East (London)
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Director of Resilience Finance (New York or London)
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Senior Manager, Global Delivery – Africa (London)
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Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design began as a design competition, launched by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in partnership with nonprofits and the philanthropic sector, in response to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating impact on the eastern U.S. Today, Rebuild partners with 100RC to reimagine the way communities find solutions for today’s large-scale, complex problems.
Communications Manager (New York)
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Owelle Rochas Okorocha is the Most Unpopular Igbo Presidential Material
Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State in the south east of Nigeria is the man the national ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) will select as their Vice Presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election that is less than two years away. And the best intentions of the APC is for him to succeed their next Hausa President in the 2023 presidential election "to compensate the Igbos".
Okorocha will make a good Vice President and a pragmatic President, but his major problem is his bad public relations among the majority of Igbos in the south eastern states. He is the most unpopular presidential material from the south east. And he is to blame for neglecting his public relations among his own people.
He has no public relations plan.
Having a goody-goody advert on the CNN is irrelevant to majority of Igbos who don't watch the CNN.
He needs a down to earth grassroots public relations campaign which will make him more popular among the Igbos who are the most literate electorate in Nigeria.
Okorocha has to start his grassroots campaign for the presidential election now before it is too late.
The defeated former national ruling party,
People's Democratic Party (PDP) has the most popular potential Igbo presidential candidates. And they are the following outstanding personalities in democracy and governance in the nation building of a New Nigeria.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Women Advancing Africa Placing Women at the Centre Stage of Africa's Economic Advancement
Women Advancing Africa Placing Women at the Centre Stage of Africa's Economic Advancement
The Women Advancing Africa Forum is set to bring some of the continent's best and brightest minds together to shape a common agenda to accelerate the economic advancement of women in Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, July 27, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The inaugural Women Advancing Africa (WAA) Forum is a new Pan-African flagship initiative launched by the Graça Machel Trust to acknowledge and celebrate the central role women play in shaping Africa's development agenda and by driving social and economic transformation. The Forum will take place from 9-12 August in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania at the Hyatt Kilimanjaro.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Open City Lagos 2017 Symposium and Workshop on Urban Resilience
Open City Lagos 2017 Symposium and Workshop on Urban Resilience
Open City Lagos 2017 Symposium and Workshop hosted by Heinrich Boll Foundation and Nsibidi Institute exploring urban resilience in Africa's largest megacity.
Resilience has emerged in the global development sphere as the buzzword of the day, much like the urban design concepts of sustainability, smart cities and green design that came before it.
While trending concepts are useful in disseminating and simplifying complex issues, are they truly effective strategies for addressing the challenges that face our cities?
This year’s edition of Open City Lagos is unpacking resilience; reaching for a deeper understanding of the concept, its implication and importance to the success of inclusive urban development; highlighting current initiatives that implement resilient strategies at multiple scales. And also aiming to explore ways diverse urban agents can incorporate resilience in everyday practice and city operations.
Date: Tuesday 25 July, 2017
Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM
Venue: Art Afrique, Villa Angelia, 20 Oju Olobun Close, off Bishop Oluwole St. Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
This week, nearly 500 urban resilience leaders from cities around the world, including 80 Chief Resilience Officers, will gather in New York City to share ideas and innovations from their cities, collaborate on new solutions, explore New York as a living laboratory for urban resilience, and to together chart the course of the movement we are building.
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New Buharism and the Political Optimism of Patriotism
New Buharism is defined by the Political Optimism of the positive minded followers and supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari in national patriotism for the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa in the comity of nations in the world.
New Buharism is a political movement to counteract the political pessimism of the negative minded Nigerians who are irrationally opposed to the national leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Majority of the pessimists are still bitter over the loss of their political benefits of being members and supporters of the defeated and disgraced former national ruling party, People's Democratic Party (PDP). They are very bitter losers; and have decided to become political spoilers and enemies of progress; to launch a political campaign of calumny against the new national ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Majority of them are from the south eastern and south-southern states whose political opinions are based on their tribal bigotry and misguided political ambitions. They have ambiguous and erroneous opinions on the national leadership of Nigeria. They are afraid of the political leadership of the predominantly Hausa Muslims of northern Nigeria. They will prefer their own independent republics where they believe their future will be more secure. Their political pessimism makes them to reject the political optimism of national patriotism.
~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream", " The Prophet Lied", "In the House of Dogs" and other books distributed by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu and other booksellers worldwide.
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
Lagos: The Miracle Megacity of Africa
The Miracle City: Pentecostal Entrepreneurialism and the Remaking of Lagos
In the extant literature on African cities and urban lifestyles, one component of Lagos’ megacity makeup is noticeably absent. This often overlooked or under-represented feature is that Lagos is truly a “Miracle City” – a city sited at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean, with a manifest peril of being swallowed up hovering over it like the Sword of Damocles. Known for its infrastructural challenges, Lagos survives and thrives on the ingenuity, pragmatism and creativity of its more than 21 million inhabitants. For its intensely pious dwellers from a variety of religious traditions, Lagos is a city where God is alive and at work making and remaking lives, shaping and reshaping destinies.
It is not surprising then that perhaps the single most popular, most pervasive product of Lagos is miracle. The miraculous is at the heart of Nigerian Pentecostalism, and Lagos, more than any other city in Africa, merits the title of being the global capital of Pentecostalism.
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