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Not a history of Lagos. A record of what it was like to be in it, kept by someone who never stopped writing things down.
Kwabena Asante, Editor at Large Bodstore Originals
The Lagos Notebooks
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Twenty years of notebooks from a city that rebuilds itself faster than anyone can document it. Danfo routes, demolition notices, wedding programmes, overheard arguments at Oshodi.
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14 Oct 2025
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The Lagos Notebooks refuses the easy version of a life that has had many easy versions.
Olongo Africa
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Tunde Bakare has kept a notebook every day since 2004. The Lagos Notebooks is the twentieth year of it, edited down by about ninety per cent.
He writes a monthly column on urban demolition and is, by his own account, “bad at throwing away paper”.
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Writes in English, Yorùbá
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- Publisher
- Bodstore Originals
- Publication date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789785xxxxxx
- Print length
- 412 pages
- File size
- 4.9 MB
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