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Many people think that Africa’s (especially the part where black people live) has nothing to do with super cities. They believe that in the vast African savannah, it seems that wildebeests, zebras, and lions are the owners of this land.
No, this land not only has a large gathering and migration of wild animals, but also a super city of humans.
For example, Lagos, dubbed the “Center of Black Africa”, is one of the largest cities in the world.
As the old capital of Nigeria, Lagos City has a population of 21 million and covers an area of nearly 1,000 square kilometers. If we compare it with New York, the population of New York is only 40% of Lagos and less than 80% of Lagos.
▲Lagos City’s location in Nigeria
However, although the city of Lagos is huge and prosperous, the gap between the rich and the poor in the city’s residents is extremely serious. On one side are tall buildings, the roads are clean, on the other side garbage is piled up, and sewage flows across the rich and poor areas.
Marina’s “European District” is becoming more and more prosperous under scientific planning, but all this is prepared for wealthy European immigrants.
▲The 18-hole standard golf course is also built very close to the Lagos city area for the rich in the city to enjoy. This is an advertisement for golf resorts.< /p>
For the local people, the British have adopted a laissez-faire attitude. It is separated from the “European District” and is the most populous traditional community in Izalejko. The roads are narrow and muddy, and the garbage is everywhere. Separated all the way is the difference between heaven and hell.
▲The difference between rich and poor areas
This way of urban construction is actually in the name of public interest, squeezing the living space of the local people, maintaining the extravagant life of Europeans and strengthening social control of the colonies. Even, the British colonists stipulated that the local settlement should be at least 400 meters apart from the European settlement to prevent the locals from spreading malaria and other diseases to the European area.
This huge African harbour is both a haven for the rich and a hell for the poor. The early division of social strata formed since then and profoundly affected the development of Lagos City. The Europeans brought advanced technology and a lot of money to Lagos, but they also brought oppression and plunder, and buried the evil result of the differentiation between rich and poor in Lagos.In the social soil.
Poor and rich differentiation after independent movement
After the Second World War, the world national independence movement soared, and this trend was particularly intense in Africa. The historical hatred buried during the slave trade and the brutality of the British colonialists completely annoyed the Nigerians.
Independence movements in the Nigerian region have soared.
▲Nigeria declares independence
In 1960, the increasing independence movement of Nigeria finally broke free from British colonial rule and established the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Lagos became the capital of this new country.
However, what the Lagosians did not expect was that they drove away the British and came to the military government again.
▲Lagos old photos
Since independence in 1960, there have been successive military coups fighting for power in Nigeria. One after another, warlords appeared one after another, seized power, and stepped down one after another, as if taking turns on stage and singing.
But the constant is that these