Nigeria is pretty parallel to Pakistan in terms of land area, population size and population density, and Lagos, Nigeria’s mega-metropolis, is the world’s fourth largest city, comparable in population and density to Mumbai, Seoul, and Jakarta. There are more people in Nigeria than there are in the UK, France, and Spain combined, and 1 out of every 7 black people on the planet is a Nigerian. So many (179 million) that if you took half of them out of the country, Nigeria would still have the highest population of any African country.
(All stats from the CIA World Factbook unless cited otherwise) But I had apparently decided to leave the world’s most pristine, orderly, safe place to go to a place that was not those three adjectives, and there I suddenly was, standing in the middle of Africa’s biggest city, trying to not die.īut we’ll come back to my situation in a minute-let’s first get oriented on Nigeria. Even as I was checking my bag at the Tokyo airport, the woman saw where I was going and looked at me like, “Seriously though what’s your problem?” They’re opposite places in almost every way places can be opposite. There’s not really a more jarring travel experience than spending two weeks getting used to being in Japan and then going immediately to Nigeria. If you’re not sure what Odd Things in Odd Places is and why I’m in Nigeria by myself, here’s why.
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