Applauding the Shadow City Dwellers of 'Welcome to Lagos'

In Postconsumption Niti Bhan commends the "business flair of Nigeria's slum dwellers"highlighted in 'Welcome to Lagos':

In three programmes, series producer Will Anderson assembles a number of hugely likeable, articulate and witty people who live on garbage heaps, in beachside shanty towns and slums on stilts in the city's lagoon. Their tales build an intimate portrait of a city brimming with entrepreneurial flair, resilience, tough-mindedness and hope. This is not the apocalyptic urban vision with which Lagos has become synonymous and about which development experts sweat as the population of 16m climbs steadily towards a forecast 25m.Instead, it is a hymn to humanity and to the capacity of Africans to find means and motive to survive in even the most adverse conditions.