Almaz in Lagos

How Lagos has become Africa’s boom town

The city is bursting with a get-rich spirit that has made Nigeria’s economy the continent’s largest.

Almaz relishes the growing cultural scene in Lagos. Here she poses at the African Artists’ Foundation. “Lagos is a very bubbly society,” she says. “If you want to make something happen really, really bad, come to Lagos. It will happen, trust me.”
This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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